From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 8 2:22:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from charlie.callgtn.com (charlie.callgtn.com [209.47.57.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48DD37B423 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 02:22:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erothwell@callgtn.com) Received: from callgtn.com [24.114.251.145] by charlie.callgtn.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id ADC770B0144; Sun, 08 Apr 2001 05:22:15 -0400 Message-ID: <3AD02DCF.DF768D70@callgtn.com> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 05:22:23 -0400 From: Erik Rothwell Reply-To: erothwell@callgtn.com Organization: xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: michael@tenzo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A Mystery: How to deinstall XFree86? References: <01040720521500.01793@pravda.tenzo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael O'Henly wrote: > > Hi... > > I've installed "All" of FreeBSD 4.2 which included XFree86-3.3.6_4. My > intention is to use XFree86-4.0.3 (with KDE 2), so one of my first tasks is > to remove the older version of XFree86. > > I've been told that I can install XFree86-4 on top of 3.3.6 -- but I'm a > contrary kinda guy and I would feel better knowing that I'd removed the > countless bits and pieces of the previous version first. > > So...here's my question... > > Why doesn't going to /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 and entering "make deinstall" do > what I want? Instead I get a message saying that XFree86-3.3.6_4 is not > installed. Same thing when I do "pkg_delete XFree86-3.3.6_4". (I also tried > every variation on the name I could think of.) > > Either 4.2 installs a _different_ version of XFree86 than it's placed in the > default ports collection -- or I'm simply not using the right command to > remove it. > > Can you shed some light? > > Thanks! > I had the same "problem." I don't think the 4.2-RELEASE installer registers XFree86 in the package system when X is installed out-of-the-box. The entire installation is under /usr/X11R6 by default, though, so you can always rm -Rf that ;) (unless you're upgrading or somesuch and don't want to reinstall all your apps...) Cheers, Erik. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message