Firefox3 - can't deinstall

Beat Gaetzi beat at FreeBSD.org
Sat May 1 18:36:21 UTC 2010


John Pollock wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 19:15 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
>> On Saturday 01 May 2010 19:14:28 John Pollock wrote:
>>
>>> When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error
>>> message that port is not installed.
>> You should use pkg_delete instead: running "make deinstall" could fail if the 
>> port has been updated since installing it.
>>
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> pkg_delete firefox\*
> 
> The above command worked great, wasn't sure the version number installed
> but the wildcard worked great, now am utilizing: pkg_add -r firefox3 to
> get the latest package of firefox3.

Please consider using www/firefox or www/firefox35 instead of firefox3
as Firefox 3.0 is deprecated and will be removed from ports tree soon.

Beat


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