From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 11:15:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC1C37BF70 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 11:12:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA07077; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:10:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:10:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Grigory Kljuchnikov Cc: Bhishan Hemrajani , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can I delete system package? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Grigory Kljuchnikov wrote: > I tried to use /stand/sysinstall but I can't choose individual > packages for install/uninstall. If you know how it may be done, > tell me please! If you know the package name you want to uninstall: pkg_delete name_of_package Of course this must be done as root. You said you couldn't do this though (although I didn't see why - I did not see your original message). You _can_ also do this with sysinstall - installed packages will be checked. Choosing them again will cause them to be unchecked and removed from the system. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message