libcdio upgrade problems

Greg Groth ggroth at gregs-garage.com
Tue Jun 10 14:41:00 UTC 2008


Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im trying to upgrade some ports, and have a problem with libcdio. At least i
> think i do. 
>
> When i try to upgrade, say, Nautilus (or a buncha other things), it dies in the
> end with a "libcdio-0.78.2_2 is already installed. You may wish to make deinstall"
> etc. message.
>
> But i did go to /usr/ports/sysytils/libcdio and make deinstall and make reinstall,
> and this was successful. I sync'd the ports collection again, but no luck. Nothing
> in UPDATING about this.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jen
>
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I've run into similar experiences with other ports, and what I have done 
to get it to work is to deinstall the complaining port (in this instance 
libcdio), and let the original port install it as a dependency instead 
of doing a "make reinstall".

Best regards,
Greg Groth



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