question on the firefox port...

[Donald J. O'Neill]

On Friday 27 January 2006 22:33, mojo fms wrote:
> I am having an odd problem on the firefox port. This is a fresh
> install of Freebsd 6 and basicly what its doing ...
>
> ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> ===>  Checking if www/firefox already installed
> ===>   firefox-1.5_5,1 is already installed
>       You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
>       by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
>       If you really wish to overwrite the old port of www/firefox
>       without deleting it first, set the variable
> "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" in your environment or the "make install"
> command line. *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/www/firefox.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/www/firefox.
>
> I have tried, make deinstall ; make reinstall same error. I am not
> sure of what i should set FORCE_PKG_REGISTER to but i tried, YES,
> www/firefox and NO for the settings on it. Running it like this :
> FORCE_PKG_REGISTER="NO" make reinstall  ... i did this on make
> reinstall and make install and nothing still..
>
>
> make deinstall ...
>
> root@# make deinstall
> ===>  Deinstalling for www/firefox
> ===>   firefox not installed, skipping
> root@#
>
> any suggestions please.
>
> Thanks
> _______________________________________________
> 

Just what were you trying to do? You left out the information about how 
you got to this point.

To get "make deinstall" and "make reinstall" to work, they have to be 
run from the port; in your case, run from /usr/ports/www/firefox. 

Don