From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 29 12:36:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FF737B853 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:36:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from ip70.r17.d.bel.nwlink.com (ip70.r17.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.176.70]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01729; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:36:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:30:56 -0800 (PST) From: R Joseph Wright X-Sender: rjoseph@mammalia.sea To: Simon J Mudd Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeing up space on 3.4 In-Reply-To: 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 > Howto-1.0 Mesa-3.0 amanda-2.3.0 apache+php-1.3.9+3.0.12 > apache+php-1.3.9+4.0b2 apache-1.3.9 bash-1.14.7 cvsup-16.0 emacs-20.4 > gettext-0.10.35 giflib-3.0 jpeg-6b kde-1.1.1 kdebase-1.1.1 kdegames-1.1.1 > kdegraphics-1.1.1 kdelibs-1.1.1 kdemultimedia-1.1.1 kdenetwork-1.1.1 > kdesupport-1.1.1 kdeutils-1.1.1 less-340 libtool-1.3.3 linux_base-5.2 > lynx-2.8.2rel.1 modula-3-3.6 modula-3-lib-3.6 mpage-2.5 > mysql-client-3.22.25 mysql-server-3.22.25 ncftp-3.0b19 > netscape-communicator-4.61 netscape-navigator-4.61 pine-3.96 png-1.0.3 > postfix-19991231.04 qt-1.42 rpm-2.5.5 tcl-8.0.5 tiff-3.5.1 tk-8.0.5 > uulib-0.5.13 xamp-0.8.7 xbanner-1.31 xcd-1.7 xcdplayer-2.2 xpm-3.4k > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > One of the nice things about redhat linux (and other package-based > distributions) is the ability to view and selectively install/uninstall or > upgrade what's on the system. > > How can I find what I've installed and what I can (harmlessly) > delete? It appears you already know about pkg_info. There are others of this family as well: pkg_add, and pkg_delete. These are somewhat analogous to the rpm system of redhat, and are used for installing and deinstalling precompiled binary packages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message