From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 13 07:30:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA20507 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 07:30:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from houmi.xnet.com (houmi.xnet.com [205.243.139.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA20496 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 07:30:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmcgroarty@high-voltage.com) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 9:34 -0600 From: "brianmcg" To: "Karl Pielorz" , "alexd@idcomm.com" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re[2]: pkg_delete usage Message-ID: <19981113093222598-14ba01df@high-voltage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sounds like he's probably using: pkg_delete squid-2.0.tgz instead of just: pkg_delete squid-2.0 ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: Re: pkg_delete usage Author: kpielorz@tdx.co.uk (Karl Pielorz) Date: 11/13/98 8:36 AM 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") To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message