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Date:      Sat, 7 Apr 2001 20:52:15 -0700
From:      Michael O'Henly <michael@tenzo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   A Mystery: How to deinstall XFree86?
Message-ID:  <01040720521500.01793@pravda.tenzo.net>

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Hi...

I've installed "All" of FreeBSD 4.2 which included XFree86-3.3.6_4. My 
intention is to use XFree86-4.0.3 (with KDE 2), so one of my first tasks is 
to remove the older version of XFree86.

I've been told that I can install XFree86-4 on top of 3.3.6 -- but I'm a 
contrary kinda guy and I would feel better knowing that I'd removed the 
countless bits and pieces of the previous version first.

So...here's my question...

Why doesn't going to /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 and entering "make deinstall" do 
what I want? Instead I get a message saying that XFree86-3.3.6_4 is not 
installed. Same thing when I do "pkg_delete XFree86-3.3.6_4". (I also tried 
every variation on the name I could think of.)

Either 4.2 installs a _different_ version of XFree86 than it's placed in the 
default ports collection -- or I'm simply not using the right command to 
remove it.

Can you shed some light?

Thanks!

M.

-- 
Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design

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