From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 27 5:39:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF7C237B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:39:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0G33002019T8N3@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.185]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0G33001LH9T7NX@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:39:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:39:29 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: KDE 2 In-reply-to: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E02F47CC3@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> To: 'Giorgos Keramidas' , drewt@writeme.com, kstewart@urx.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E0306D512@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:charon@urania.westgate.gr] > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 5:14 AM > To: drewt@writeme.com; kstewart@urx.com > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: KDE 2 > > > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > > What is the proper procedure for removing installed > software from FBSD? I'm > > sure it goes beyond just deleting the files from the hard > drive. I want to > > clean KDE 1.9x, XF86 3.3.6, and XF86 4.? from my system. > I've got things > > screwed up and wish to start over. > > If you have installed from the ports, then the port's > "deinstall" target > should take care of this automatically for you. You might > have to check > for custom configuration files in your users' HOME dirs, after you > remove the port. > > If you compile things by yourself, then things are a bit more > difficult. Thank you for your prompt reply. As you can probably tell, I'm brand new to both Unix and FreeBSD. When you say "ports deinstall target" are you referring to the pkg_delete command? Also, KDE and XF86 3.x were installed from ports but for XF86 4.x, I followed the directions on the XF86 web site and installed the binaries for FBSD using their install script. pkg_info -aI lists the following regarding XF86 4: XFree86-libraries-4.0.1 X11R6.4/XFree86-4.0 include/(shared) library kit So I didn't compile this myself but I didn't install it via the ports collection. However, it is listed. Do you think this means that the pkg_delete command will work? Thanks again, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message