From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 6 9:22:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F29837B405 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:22:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA07C2E45F for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:22:41 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA6HMfV02108 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:22:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:22:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200111061722.fA6HMfV02108@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Vivek Khera To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cleanly uninstall software package Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions References: X-Trace: lorax.kciLink.com 1004978471 33006 216.194.193.106 (5 Nov 2001 16:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: daemon@kciLink.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "j" == jimmy writes: j> I wanna uninstall some software packages that I installed during j> installation, but they are not listed in /var/db/pkg, i.e. j> XFree86. How to cleanly uninstall the packages? I don't want to j> rm -rf /usr/X11R6... ;-) I asked this before, and was told that XFree86 is "special" in that during the system install, it is not considered a package. The only way to rid yourself of it is to rm -r /usr/X11R6 and maybe some other stuff in /etc. All of your other packages should be listed properly. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message