remove old installations

[Lenore Horner]

Perhaps this is terribly naive:  what about 
sudo port clean --all portname
?

On Dec 1, 2011, at 18:22 , Phil Dobbin wrote:

> On 1/12/11 22:48, "Roger Pack" <rogerdpack2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I guess the "frustration" is that if I ever have an aborted
>> installation, with that particular port, and then attempt a reinstall,
>> I am greeted by an obscure error message "fetch failed, please consult
>> this log" (even if --force is used), so I'm trying to work around
>> that.
>> 
>> "Most" ports reinstall fine over aborted installations, but not this one.
>> -roger-
> 
> It's regular practise. In nearly all cases with *nix it's:
> 
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> 
> & if you don't succeed you perform either:
> 
> make uninstall
> 
> or
> 
> make clean
> 
> before you try installing again.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>    Phil...
> 
> -- 
> Nothing to see here... move along, move along
> 
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