Subject: Re: problems installing mutt
To: Reinoud Koornstra <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/31/2000 22:40:16
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 10:29:17PM +0100, Reinoud Koornstra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had mutt installed.
> I forgot to remove it.
> Now i supped the current pkgsrc.
> I did a make install.
> After this i got:
>
> ===> Installing for mutt-1.0.1
> ===> mutt-1.0.1 is already installed - perhaps an older version?
> If so, you may wish to ``pkg_delete mutt-1.0.1'' and install
> this package again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly,
> or use ``make update'' to upgrade it and all of its dependencies.
> If you really wish to overwrite the old package of mutt-1.0.1
> without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
> in your environment or the "make install" command line.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
>
> After this i tryed to remove with pkg_delete mutt-1.0.1
> This was the result:
>
> pkg_delete: package 'mutt-1.0.1' doesn't have a prefix
>
> Then i tried to see what was installed:
> pkg_info -I -a | sort -f
> But it gave this:
> pkg_info: show_file: can't open '+COMMENT' for reading
>
> Any suggestions what i can do now?
rm -r /var/db/pkg/mutt-1.0.1
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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