From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 19 23:29:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C2516A409 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:29:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508EA43D46 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:29:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pbowen@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend2.internal (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2640FD4C147 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:29:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.152]) by frontend2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:29:20 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 5Hbky8+PMPgeWimwMJ7Yq63i21g0fNG+pcn6vPQgRZ2s 1145489360 Received: from [192.168.158.82] (unknown [216.216.132.66]) by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D7EA141 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:29:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4446C7E5.3050101@fastmail.fm> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:29:41 -0500 From: Patrick Bowen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: How do uninstall a package and all it's dependencies ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:29:57 -0000 Low Kian Seong wrote: >Dear all, > >Been digging around but never really found the answer to this one, say if i >install xfce4 package and then later I want to uninstall xfce4 and *all* >it's dependencies, how do i do it ? > >Thank you all in advance. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Seong; I do that fairly often when I'm just looking at packages. Try "pkg_deinstall -R package-name", where package-name is replaced with the name of the package you want to delete, in your case xfce4. pkg_deinstall -R xfce4. Patrick