Firefox3 - can't deinstall

John Pollock johnpollock at bellsouth.net
Sat May 1 18:28:18 UTC 2010


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.

Many thanks,

JP





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