On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:10:31PM -0800, Ben Calvert wrote: > i can't reinstall bzip2 due to a 'library conflict'. > > first i couldn't run pkg_add -ui bzip2, so i deleted it and all it's > dependencies, but now i can't pkg_add it or install it from ports. > > when i try to install from ports, i get the following slightly more > helpful messages: > > Can't install bzip2-1.0.4 because of conflicts (.libs-bzip2-1.0.4) > > can someone help me figure out where this library comes from and how to > overwrite it?
When pkg_add -r is used, older libraries are retained in .libs-* packages. Note that pkg_add -u issues -r. To clean up, merely # pkg_delete .libs-bzip2
