From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 1 10:55:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pr0n.kutulu.org (pr0n.kutulu.org [151.196.107.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548E637B40C for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:55:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from kutulu.kutulu.org ([64.212.128.3]) by pr0n.kutulu.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA1ItM974435; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:55:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from kutulu@kutulu.org) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011101125228.009f9d90@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: kutulu@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 13:00:29 -0500 To: Erik Sabowski From: Kutulu Subject: Re: uninstalling a port Cc: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 06:41 PM 11/01/2001 +0000, Erik Sabowski wrote: >I want to uninstall a port, so i went to it's directory in the ports tree >and ran 'make deinstall'. this didn;t work because i upgraded the ports >tree since then, so what is there is a different version than what is >installed. does that mean pkg_delete is the way to uninstall it? even >though i didn;t install it from a package? thanks for any help Yes, pkg_delete will delete ports installed from /usr/ports as well as packages installed with pkg_add. You can also install the sysutils/portupgrade port and use pkg_deinstall from that, which has some extra functions, like recursive uninstallations (both 'up' and 'down' the dependancy chain'). --K To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message