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Author: Chip
Date: 02-01-02 10:14
I tried to follow your instructions but get pkgdb: command not found errors. When I try to find it I get this:
chip# locate pkgdb
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb
What am I missing? Is portsdb -Uu the same thing? I am running it right now anyway.
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Author: Dan Langille
Date: 02-01-02 11:10
try /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb
note: locate is updated automagically once a week. You won't find just-installed files that way. Either use find, or see man locate to manually run the update program.
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Author: Chip
Date: 03-01-02 03:17
Well, find was unable to find it also -
find: pkgdb: No such file or directory
bash-2.05$
What port do I need to install to install pkgdb? I checked the fbsd.org web site and couldn't come up with anything.
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Author: Dan Langille
Date: 03-01-02 04:07
Chip wrote:
> Well, find was unable to find it also -
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> find: pkgdb: No such file or directory
> bash-2.05$
I found it:
$ find /usr/local/sbin -name pkgdb
/usr/local/sbin/pkgdb
$
> What port do I need to install to install pkgdb?
The article is all about portupgrade. pkgdb is part of portupgrade.
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Author: Chip
Date: 03-01-02 06:36
I understand that, and I have the port portupgrade installed, as shown here:
chip# pkg_info | grep portupgrade
portupgrade-20010912.2 Very powerful FreeBSD ports/packages upgrading tool and mor
chip#
Yet I don't have pkgdb, as shown by the find command in the previous message.
So I am missing pkgdb, I did pkg_delete of portupgrade and then reinstalled it, a newer version - 20011231, now I have pkgdb. What do ya know - it wasn't part of the older version I had installed.
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Author: Dan Langille
Date: 03-01-02 07:04
The first rule of thumb with ports when ecountering a problem is to cvsup your ports tree and try again.
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Author: Chip
Date: 03-01-02 08:52
I just did cvsup last night (and once a month), I just had an old version of portupgrade installed. I didn't know it was so out of date (it was working fine for upgrading other ports). Now with pkgdb I can keep all my installed apps up to date more easily.
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Author: Dan Langille
Date: 03-01-02 17:20
btw: you could have done a "portupgrade portupgrade"
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Author: Chip
Date: 04-01-02 09:12
It's done. Took a day and a night to finish, it stopped several times needing input - specifically apsfilter and something else, I don't remember what. But it's done. One note though - All my custom desktop settings are gone. I guess this didn't happen to you, or you would have mentioned it in your article? The wm I am using is XFCE if it matters.
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Author: DomitianX
Date: 21-09-02 17:44
When I try to run pkgdb- F I get the following error:
/usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:34:in `require': No such file to load -- optparse (LoadError)
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:34
If I try to portupgrade portupgrade, I get the same error.
Any ideas?
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Author: Kevin
Date: 12-01-04 15:25
Hi there
It's been a while that this message was added in the list, but I get the same message trying to use any program which comes with this portupgrade tool. I am using a stable 4.5 version of FreeBSD.
Best regards,
Kevin
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Author: Michal
Date: 02-07-04 13:44
Hi all,
I think I had the same problem, it means after I`ve installed portupgrade using ports I was trying to build /var/db/pkg but when I run #pkgdb -F or #portupgrade -a command the following error occured:
pkgdb: command not found,
So I use rehash command and everything was fine. In some shells it is essential to use rehash command after using any of newly installed programs.
BTW my system is FreeBSD 4.10
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