How to reinstall pkg(8) itself?

Kurt Jaeger lists at opsec.eu
Wed Dec 27 19:48:16 UTC 2017


Hi!

> > > You have pkg(8) installed, but want to recompile and reinstall it.
> > > How do you do this?
> > 
> > cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg
> > make install
> 
> ===>  Installing for pkg-1.10.3_1
> ===>  Checking if pkg already installed
> ===>   pkg-1.10.3_1 is already installed
>       You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
>       by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.

If it tells you to

make deinstall
make reinstall

then I use that in almost every case and it fixes it. I don't remember
a case where this did not fix it.

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