From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 13 06:37:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA13409 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 06:37:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA13399 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 06:37:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA20965; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:36:45 GMT Message-ID: <364C43FC.487CD371@tdx.co.uk> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:36:44 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Davidson CC: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: pkg_delete usage References: <364C3E22.FD5B3FB3@idcomm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex Davidson wrote: > > Having installed some .tgz files using pkg_add I thought I could use > 'pkg_delete filename' but it says the filename isn't registered (or > something like that). > > What is the real usage? Try 'man pkg_delete'? ;-) Seriously, try the manual pages... Looking through them :- pkg_info -I -a Will show you all the packages the system thinks it has installed, then you should be able to do: pkg_delete pacakge-name (e.g. on my system I could remove squid with "pkg_delete squid-2.0") Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message