But now some of the packages were complaining that an older version is installed & I had no idea how to upgrade these packages.
So in my blind rage I did "pkg_add -vf" on all packages including mc.
Now mc works but I cannot uninstall it or any of the packages. I will show you an example.
# pkg_add mc-4.6.0_13.tgz pkg_add: package 'mc-4.6.0_13' or its older version already installed # pkg_delete mc-4.6.0_13.tgz pkg_delete: no such package 'mc-4.6.0_13.tgz' installed #
Now how on earth is that possible?? First it says "older version already installed" & than it says "no such package 'mc-4.6.0_13.tgz' installed".
Yeah, maybe it is not completely clear. When you use pkg_add you give it a tgz file containing the package. When you want to delete it, you must give the package name, usually the same but without the tgz extension.
Some tricks: It is often helpfull to search for what version of a package is installed when you get that kind of error:
# pkg_info -x mc
the -x is regular expresion, so all packages containing mc will match, in this case mc-4 is probably better. You can also use pkg_delete with -x option, but be carefull!
When using packages, make sure you download packages for the same release, this way you should not get such errors as "older version installed".
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