Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:26:31 -0800 From: Alex Obradovic <aobradovic@ballantyneinc.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011120152631.H6187@bsd.alexe.org> In-Reply-To: <012e01c17217$ef44ead0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:05:59AM %2B0100 References: <007f01c171c1$4be01cd0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <2696.10.100.98.21.1006260649.squirrel@10.100.3.5> <009001c171c4$e26a71c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120141821.D6187@bsd.alexe.org> <011701c17212$8518b010$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120144826.F6187@bsd.alexe.org> <012e01c17217$ef44ead0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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You should be fine. Just run the same command several times until
there are no more kde* entries.
Ignore the dependency messages you are getting. After you reinstall
KDE everything will be OK. Since most of the apps keep their config
files in your home directory, all preferences will be saved.
Alex
* owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) wrote:
> Alex writes:
>
> > pkg_delete -f kde*
>
> I tried it, and got a truckload of error messages ("unable to completely remove
> directory" and "couldn't open dependency file" being among hte most popular, as
> well as "couldn't entirely delete package"). Is it still removing everything?
>
> It complained about a dependent package called koffice, so I performed the same
> command on that as well.
>
> It complained about not finding some XFree86-3 stuff, but I think that is
> because I have version 4.x installed.
>
> > Then cvsup and get the latest updates to the
> > ports (if your ports are messed up, then delete
> > /ports/x11 and let cvsup rebuild them)
>
> If I can remember how to do that.
>
> I'll play around with this and see.
>
> This isn't going to affect the rest of the system (all the non-X parts), right?
>
>
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