Firefox3 - can't deinstall

John Pollock johnpollock at bellsouth.net
Sat May 1 19:00:43 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 20:36 +0200, Beat Gaetzi wrote:
> 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

Good suggestion. Adding firefox35.
;-)

Many thanks,
JP
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