Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:39:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh <wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org> To: Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: How do I remove a distribution? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904191337280.56686-100000@fosburgh.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <371B7674.185D4A34@math.udel.edu>
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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Peter Schwenk wrote: > Hello: > > I've got a FreeBSD 3.1 machine from which I would like to remove the > XFree86 distribution. It's a server machine, and I don't need it, and > it's taking up precious room. I was playing around with > /stand/sysinstall, but it didn't seem to know that XFree86 was installed > already. I was hoping it was a matter of "unchecking" it from the list. > > -- > PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator > Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware > schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! > > You might try looking for Xfree86-blah.blah.blah in /var/db/pkg. If it is there, then you can just pkg_delete it. Otherwise, I don't know if rm -r 'ing /usr/X11R6 is a good idea or not. -- Jonathan Fosburgh Geotechnician Snyder Oil Corporation Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 AIM: Namthorien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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