Reinstalling 'vlc-devel'

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Fri Mar 23 14:56:26 UTC 2007


Garrett Cooper wrote:
> White Hat wrote:
>> A few days ago, there was a warning in the
>> '/usr/ports/UPDATING' file regarding removing
>> '/multimedia/vlc' prior to updating. Anyway, I had
>> 'vlc-devel' installed; however, I deleted it anyway to
>> be safe. I now assume that I can simply reinstall the
>> port via: "make install && make clean". Is that
>> correct?
>>
>> Thanks!
> 
> Actually you should do "make deinstall clean install" to properly 
> reinstall a port.
> 
> -Garrett

Note: That assumes that you want to clean the port and its dependencies. 
make deinstall install works just file as well ;)..

-Garrett


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