Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:23:17 +0800 From: "Low Kian Seong" <freebsd.low@gmail.com> To: "Patrick Bowen" <pbowen@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do uninstall a package and all it's dependencies ? Message-ID: <a6baaade0604192023p14af3f0atbcc29e4989170bdd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4446C7E5.3050101@fastmail.fm> References: <a6baaade0604182113jbc2ed0oc2bfe8f3f71088de@mail.gmail.com> <4446C7E5.3050101@fastmail.fm>
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The problem about the -R option is that normally that takes off stuff like xorg-server and friends too ! Really not nice, or am I doing something wron= g ? On 4/20/06, Patrick Bowen <pbowen@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > Low Kian Seong wrote: > > >Dear all, > > > >Been digging around but never really found the answer to this one, say i= f > 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. > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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