From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 19 11:42: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fosburgh.dyndns.org (Dorm-36314.RH.UH.EDU [129.7.141.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2533A14C8E for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:42:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by fosburgh.dyndns.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA57340; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:39:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:39:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Reply-To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu To: Peter Schwenk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: How do I remove a distribution? In-Reply-To: <371B7674.185D4A34@math.udel.edu> 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 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