Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:11:58 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org> To: Dilshod <dilshod@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A quick way of uninstalling a set of applications? Message-ID: <20030117081158.GA60669@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <006c01c2bdfc$daa43cc0$5f4f0844@DT> References: <006c01c2bdfc$daa43cc0$5f4f0844@DT>
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:48:41PM -0800, Dilshod typed: > Hello guys, once again. > > Many thanks to the previous responders to my question 'Customizing the > console - Changing the resolution'. Their answers were exactly what I > was looking for. > > I am tempted to ask you, readers of this news-group, a question again, > but I promise I'll try not overwhelm you with my questions. I needed to > ask you because I didn't want to reinvent the wheel. > > Here is my question: Is there any way to uninstall a set of applications > (the application that are interrelated through dependencies)? The reason > I need to do that is because I've installed Gnome 1.4 on a clean OS, but > soon I realized I wanted Gnome 2. In the process of installing Gnome 1.4 > pkg_add has installed many additional software that were needed for > Gnome 1.4. If I want to uninstall Gnome 1.4, pkg_delete would leave the > rest on my machine which I definitely don't need them, and will have > problem I if I were to install Gnome 2.0. In your case, since you say you installed on a clean OS, pkg_delete -a will remove all installed packages. Otherwise, pkg_delete -r may be usefull. See man pkg_delete. > > Thanks again, > > DT > > > 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
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