Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 16:26:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: John Pollock <johnpollock@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005011618290.36507@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <1272744411.82725.28.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org> References: <1272737668.82725.5.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005011312270.35942@wonkity.com> <1272744411.82725.28.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org>
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On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 13:13 -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote: >> >>> Am running FreeBSD 8.0 p2, and had installed Firefox3. >>> Since it keeps crashing when viewing some web pages, I wanted to >>> deinstall it. >>> >>> When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error >>> message that port is not installed. >> >> What message, exactly? The Firefox ports have moved around, and you may >> be trying to uninstall one that isn't actually installed. >> >>> Which brings up a question, when installing using ports I normally run >>> make install clean. >>> >>> Does this prevent then at later date make deinstall? >> >> No. > > Although, I've closed the console that had the message. It basically > stated: Can't make deinstall, firefox3 not installed. <-- something to > that effect. > > However, the pkg_delete command was able to deinstall it. No, this is exactly what I meant. Firefox ports changed names not too long ago. The port you were in was not the one that was actually installed (or it had changed names). > Thank you, for the information about make clean part of the command. > > I think the problem, was that I had installed FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE, then > added the firefox3 port, then about a few weeks later upgraded to "p2" > version and ran portupgrade. That's fine, should work with no problems. As long as you don't change FreeBSD versions (like going from FreeBSD 8 to 9), you can continue to upgrade ports without problems. > All is good right now. Have firefox35 now installed and working. Unfortunately, that's an obsolete port now. www/firefox is the main one, currently at version 3.6. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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