Firefox3 - can't deinstall

[John Pollock]

On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 16:26 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 13:13 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> >> On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote:
> >>
> >>> Am running FreeBSD 8.0 p2, and had installed Firefox3.
> >>> Since it keeps crashing when viewing some web pages, I wanted to
> >>> deinstall it.
> >>>
> >>> When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error
> >>> message that port is not installed.
> >>
> >> What message, exactly?  The Firefox ports have moved around, and you may
> >> be trying to uninstall one that isn't actually installed.
> >>
> >>> Which brings up a question, when installing using ports I normally run
> >>> make install clean.
> >>>
> >>> Does this prevent then at later date make deinstall?
> >>
> >> No.
> >
> > Although, I've closed the console that had the message. It basically
> > stated: Can't make deinstall, firefox3 not installed. <-- something to
> > that effect.
> >
> > However, the pkg_delete command was able to deinstall it.
> 
> No, this is exactly what I meant.  Firefox ports changed names not too 
> long ago.  The port you were in was not the one that was actually 
> installed (or it had changed names).
> 
> > Thank you, for the information about make clean part of the command.
> >
> > I think the problem, was that I had installed FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE, then
> > added the firefox3 port, then about a few weeks later upgraded to "p2"
> > version and ran portupgrade.
> 
> That's fine, should work with no problems.  As long as you don't change 
> FreeBSD versions (like going from FreeBSD 8 to 9), you can continue to 
> upgrade ports without problems.
> 
> > All is good right now. Have firefox35 now installed and working.
> 
> Unfortunately, that's an obsolete port now.  www/firefox is the main 
> one, currently at version 3.6.
> 
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA

Hi Warren,

Thanks for the info, was unaware, that /usr/ports/firefox was the most
current version of firefox. Am going through deinstall of firefox35
install of /usr/ports/firefox.

This has been very helpful in bettering my understandings of the ports
system.

Thank you,
JP

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