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Old 04-10-2013
Solaris 10 - removing packages when files have been deleted

Is there any way to do this?

Files/directory have been deleted but pkginfo reports the packages still there. Is there any way to clean this out?
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Old 04-10-2013
What error do you get from pkgrm?
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Old 04-17-2013
Sorted now. Found out easiest way was to restore directories so it could do a proper re-install.
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