Re: problem installing tin-1.4.4 from the ports tree

["John Smith" <pagemaster41@hotmail.com>]

pkg_delete -f would force delete it whether it was important or not, if you 
know it is not needed just force it to uninstall






>
>George, now we're cooking with gas!
>
>Ok. Having never faced the pkg system head on, I took some peeks through
>my current system, and its one lonely package. It appears to me that you
>can read the file /var/db/pkg/tin-1.4.19990216/+CONTENTS and manually
>remove the files that it mentions.
>
>Once you have done this, you can probably delete the
>/var/db/pkg/tin-1.4.19990216 directory.
>
>Of course, if you are cautious, you wouldn't delete anything, rather,
>just move them someplace until you can tell if you would have deleted
>anything important. :)
>
>* George Nelson <ghnelson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> [001119 16:02]:
> > # pkg_info | grep tin
> > tiff-3.5.4         Tools and library routines for working with TIFF 
>images
> > png-1.0.3          library for manipulating PNG images
> > glib-1.2.7         useful routines for C programming
> > mpeg_lib-1.3.1     collection of C routines to decode MPEG movies
> > tin-1.4.19990216   TIN newsreader (termcap based)
> > bzip2-1.0.1        block-sorting file compressor, unencumbered
> >
> > When I tried running pkg_delete this is what I got:
> >
> > # pkg_delete tin-1.4.19990216
> > pkg_delete: file `/usr/local/bin/tin' doesn't really exist
> > pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list 
>is
> > incorrectly specified?)
> >
> >
> >
>
>--
>``Oh Lord; Ooh you are so big; So absolutely huge; Gosh we're all really
>impressed down here, I can tell you.''
>

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