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Date:      Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:29:41 -0500
From:      Patrick Bowen <pbowen@fastmail.fm>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do uninstall a package and all it's dependencies ?
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Low Kian Seong wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>Been digging around but never really found the answer to this one, say if i
>install xfce4 package and then later I want to uninstall xfce4 and *all*
>it's dependencies, how do i do it ?
>
>Thank you all in advance.
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Seong;

I do that fairly often when I'm just looking at packages. Try 
"pkg_deinstall -R package-name", where package-name is replaced with the 
name of the package you want to delete, in your case xfce4.

pkg_deinstall -R xfce4.

Patrick



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