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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.


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