Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:53:19 -0400 From: "James A. Mutter" <jm7996@devrycols.edu> To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu, Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: How do I remove a distribution? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990419145319.00798be0@devrycols.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904191337280.56686-100000@fosburgh.dyndns.o rg> References: <371B7674.185D4A34@math.udel.edu>
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pkg_delete -vd XFree86{VERSION NUMBER}
That should do it.
At 01:39 PM 4/19/99 -0500, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote:
>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
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>>
>>
>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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