From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 2 18:18: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0654B37B408 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:18:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4262 invoked by uid 0); 3 Nov 2001 02:17:59 -0000 Received: from tk212017108240.univie.teleweb.at (HELO Deadcell.ANT) (212.17.108.240) by mail.gmx.net (mp001-rz3) with SMTP; 3 Nov 2001 02:17:59 -0000 Received: (from ant@localhost) by Deadcell.ANT (8.11.5/8.11.5) id fA32HjN02410; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 03:17:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ant) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 03:17:45 +0100 From: Andreas Ntaflos To: Terminator Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cleanly uninstall software package Message-ID: <20011103031745.D1564@Deadcell.ANT> Mail-Followup-To: Terminator , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jimmy@mtc.dhs.org on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 02:09:54PM -0800 Platform: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Hostname: Bender.ANT 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 On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 02:09:54PM -0800, Terminator wrote: > I wanna uninstall some software packages that I installed during > installation, but they are not listed in /var/db/pkg, i.e. > XFree86. How to cleanly uninstall the packages? I don't want to > rm -rf /usr/X11R6... ;-) Check the output of pkg_info and consider using sysutils/portupgrade which can be found in the ports. Take your time though to read through the man pages of each command which comes with portupgrade (pkg_deinstall, pkgdb, ..). It's a quite powerful tool. Maybe you'll have to update the pkg index first which can also be done with the portupgrade stuff. regards -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message