From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 23:09:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4603937B401 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:09:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cordis.lu (mail.cordis.lu [212.190.217.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FBE43FBD for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:09:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.carter@cordis.lu) Received: from mailsvr.intrasoft.lu (mail.intrasoft.lu [212.190.217.251]) by mail.cordis.lu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3I6Gq1d017722; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:16:53 +0200 Received: by mail.intrasoft.lu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:06:28 +0200 Received: from intra241.intrasoft.lu (212.190.217.170 [212.190.217.170]) by mailsvr.intrasoft.lu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2656.59) id JD53XQ0H; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:06:24 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony To: Johnson David , Bborie Park , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Organization: Intrasoft Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:09:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <200304171605.h3HG5j825520@andrena.ucdavis.edu> <200304171057.05425.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <200304171057.05425.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304180809.57060.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-131.9 required=4.2 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_KMAIL,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Re: Gnome2 Removal X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 06:09:32 -0000 There is a page in the manual that tells you how to do this (or is it the FAQ, hold on...) here you go: http://freebsd.unixtech.be/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q5 in the gnome Faq...Removes all Gnome 1.x and 2.x Read it first, and get this confirmed by someone who knows a bit more about FBSD than I. Anthony On Thursday 17 April 2003 19:57, Johnson David wrote: > On Thursday 17 April 2003 09:05 am, Bborie Park wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to remove Grnome2 from my system. Doing pkg_delete only > > removes gnome2-2.2.1, not all its associating files/libraries. So, > > how do i completely remove Gnome2? > > Ah, a tough one. The problem is that there are several dozen > dependencies for Gnome. Remove too many and you break other stuff. I > did this once and it was a timeconsuming affair. There is no simple way > to do this that I am aware of. > > Basically you need to find out what Gnome2 actually installed, then > remove them manually. A place to start is to use "pkgversion -R > gnome2", which will list all dependencies of an installed gnome2 > package. But BEWARE! This will list *all* dependencies, including those > required elsewhere. You do not want to remove all of this. So prune the > list by hand. Then use -i and -n when using pkg_delete to see just what > would be removed. > > I should redirect you to the freebsd-gnome mailing list where they may > have a complete list of packages that they can give you. > > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"