From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 15:23:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bsd.alexe.org (cc381552-a.slbch1.occa.home.com [24.16.80.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DFB37B417 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:23:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alex@localhost) by bsd.alexe.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAKNQVW07121 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:26:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:26:31 -0800 From: Alex Obradovic To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011120152631.H6187@bsd.alexe.org> 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$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <012e01c17217$ef44ead0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:05:59AM +0100 X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://www.alexe.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/4.4-RC (i386) X-Uptime: 3:24PM up 1 day, 4:47, 6 users, load averages: 1.11, 1.05, 1.01 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? > > > 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