Is this a "Stupid Question" ?

[Adam Smith]

I have posted this and similar questions repeatedly and can't even raise
a single response. I am being led to believe that this then 'Must be a
stupid question' although people say that there is no stupid question.
Is that another for political correctness

I am attempting an install of 7.4.3 on FreeBSD O/S 4.9, apparently
remnants of 7.3.x are scattered around on the disk from (a) previous
ports installation, causing mutex_lock/unlock, libpq.so and other
installation problems. I want to reconfigure and reinstall. How do I
know what, & where all these fragments are located or how do I uninstall
all of them or at least those that should be removed.

Thanks

-- Adam --
PS I should probably use the name Eve instead!

[mike g]

Do you know how it was originally installed? RPM or compiled source?

Are you also transferring data from 7.3 to 7.4?

Mike

RPM can be

Post by Adam Smith
I have posted this and similar questions repeatedly and can't even raise
a single response. I am being led to believe that this then 'Must be a
stupid question' although people say that there is no stupid question.
Is that another for political correctness
I am attempting an install of 7.4.3 on FreeBSD O/S 4.9, apparently
remnants of 7.3.x are scattered around on the disk from (a) previous
ports installation, causing mutex_lock/unlock, libpq.so and other
installation problems. I want to reconfigure and reinstall. How do I
know what, & where all these fragments are located or how do I uninstall
all of them or at least those that should be removed.
Thanks
-- Adam --
PS I should probably use the name Eve instead!
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[Steve]

Post by mike g
Do you know how it was originally installed? RPM or compiled source?
Are you also transferring data from 7.3 to 7.4?
Mike

Please don't top post.

Thanks,
Steve

[Adam Smith]

Post by Steve

Post by mike g
Do you know how it was originally installed? RPM or compiled source?
Are you also transferring data from 7.3 to 7.4?
Mike

Please don't top post.

?? Could not decipher "Please don't top post" ??

Post by Steve
Thanks,
Steve

[CaT]

Post by Adam Smith
I am attempting an install of 7.4.3 on FreeBSD O/S 4.9, apparently
remnants of 7.3.x are scattered around on the disk from (a) previous
ports installation, causing mutex_lock/unlock, libpq.so and other
installation problems. I want to reconfigure and reinstall. How do I
know what, & where all these fragments are located or how do I uninstall
all of them or at least those that should be removed.

If they're not installed with any sort of package management setup
then one way to do this would be to compile it and install it into
its own tree and then search out the files installed with find and
remove them.