From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 19 11:57:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nmail.devrycols.edu (nmail.devrycols.edu [199.218.238.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3684315533 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:57:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jm7996@devrycols.edu) Received: from cis063 [131.187.253.210] by nmail.devrycols.edu (SMTPD32-4.07) id ABCD298D0124; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:54:05 EST Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990419145319.00798be0@devrycols.edu> X-Sender: jm7996@devrycols.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:53:19 -0400 To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu, Peter Schwenk From: "James A. Mutter" Subject: Re: Q: How do I remove a distribution? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <371B7674.185D4A34@math.udel.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 >> 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message