Hi Chaps,
I typed make deinstall within the /usr/ports/lang directory of a
FreeBSD 9.0 and mistakenly lost Perl, Python, Ruby and a whole host of
default compiled languages.
How can I get back to the default FreeBSD default installed language
state (with Perl installed etc)?
Crossing my fingers
lang/ contains all languages and so on ruby, lua, python, perl.. Of course
you removed perl since you typed make deinstall in that parent port tree.
You can type make install in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.14 to install it again.
You don't need to reinstall FreeBSD, you're not on Windows here, you can
On 19/03/2013 07:54, Rob Navarro wrote:
Hi Chaps,
I typed make deinstall within the /usr/ports/lang directory of a
FreeBSD 9.0 and mistakenly lost Perl, Python, Ruby and a whole host of
default compiled languages.
How can I get back to the default FreeBSD default installed language
state
Dear Chaps,
Thank you very much for responding so quickly. Curiously the freeBSD 9.0
was installed with the standard answers to a sysinstall session and did
contain a version of perl.
I now seem to be in the state of discovering which languages I need and
then re-installing. Is there a
