From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 14:14:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3879E37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BAB943E42 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:14:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6PLE3Ud040166; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:14:03 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6PLE34k040165; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:14:03 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:14:03 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Matt @ Gunks.com" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do you uninstall things Message-ID: <20020725211403.GB40102@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <001d01c233e4$267c36f0$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001d01c233e4$267c36f0$6801a8c0@SURVIVAL> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:04:07AM -0400, Matt @ Gunks.com wrote: > I understand how you delete packages, its fairly easy. However, if you > compile the source yourself (i.e. Apache, PHP), how do you go about > uninstalling them? Is there something like pkg_delete ? Or do you just > delete the directory as you do on Mac's ? Most 3rd party packages install themselves into a specific directory, so it's pretty easy to remove them by removing the directory However, there are those that don't - in which case you have to hunt thru' the system for where they've installed themselves (usually just within the /usr/local subtree). That's why it's so much easier to use the ports system - the files have already be located.. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message