Re: errror while installing/replacing python 3.10

Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> writes:

> pkg_info lists only python38 as installed.
>
> legolas$ ls -d /usr/pkg/lib/py*
> /usr/pkg/lib/python3.10   /usr/pkg/lib/python3.8
>
> shows some "vestiges" of python 3.10... what should I do
>
> I tried the hard way, "rm -rf" of those vesitges" and now resumed and
> python 3.10 was successfully installed!

Sounds like python3.10 was sort of installed and sort of not.  pkg_admin
check should have reported it.

Lots of things don't deal well with the default python version changing,
or with things that use non-default versions of python.   Doing
pkg_delete of old versions is generally the way forward.