Force installation of dependencies

[Al Plant]

Warren Liddell wrote:
> Adam Vande More wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Warren Liddell <shinjii at maydias.com 
>> <mailto:shinjii at maydias.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     is there a command that when comnpiling a certain pkg will tell it
>>     to forcefully re-do every single dependcy for that particular pkg ?
>>
>>
>> Judging from the topics of your recent posts, I assume you're not 
>> using a port managment tools to handling installing and upgrading your 
>> applications.  Become familar with portmaster or portupgrade, you'll 
>> save yourself a lot of headache.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Adam Vande More
> i use portupgrade .. but atm im getting no options or solutions to my 
> problem .. so im trying to think of radical ways an means of solving it 
> .. re-installing all dependencies of this pkg im hoping will solve my issue
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Aloha,

I installed: portsnap fetch extract -to get rid of this issue of 
dependencies.

Once you have portsnap installed you can subsequently use: portsnap 
fetch update.

Manolis Kiagias has suggested this to several of us on the list and it 
works for me.

Good luck.

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