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Subject: Re: removing X11R6????
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Andrew Specht wrote:

>Can i just remove the X11R6 directory,  or do i have to uninstall X11?
>If i have to uninstall it, where do i do it? there does not to seem to be an
>option using sysinstall.
>I'm running freebsd3.0-current.

To uninstall:

$ cd /var/db
$ ls -la
total 31
drwxr-xr-x  31 root  wheel  1024 May 14 17:16 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 bin   bin     512 May 10 18:10 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 May 14 17:16 Mesa-2.6
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 May 10 18:34 XFree86-3.3.2
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   512 May 10 18:37 XFree86-contrib-3.3.1
drwyadada yada yada

$ pkg_delete XFree86-3.3.2
$ pkg_delete XFree86-contrib-3.3.1 <hmmm looks like I need to update :)

See 'man pkg_info' 'man pkg_add' 'man pkg_delete'

That being the neater way to do it; you can delete /usr/X11R6 and I am
pretty sure that you will get every last bit of X and all of the X apps
and you won't have any troubles. X tends to be a world unto itself in the
filesystem.

Notice that I said I was "pretty sure". :)

One thing to keep in mind is that you will be removing Imake. This may or
may not be needed elsewhere. It is used primarily for building X apps but
you might want it around for whatever reason.

Things like my cdplayer are in the /usr/X11R6 directory too. Proceed with
your brain engaged and every thing should be OK.

Thank you,       | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at.
Jason Wells	 | http://www.freebsd.org/


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