From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 5: 3:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net (h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net [24.67.61.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE8B37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 05:03:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@home.com) Received: by h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 764FE66B00E; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 05:54:28 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 05:54:28 -0600 From: Chris Moline To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to uninstall a package Message-ID: <20010605055428.B32828@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010605061616.00b7e360@mail.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010605061616.00b7e360@mail.cz>; from cynic@mail.cz on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:19:43AM +0200 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 On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:19:43AM +0200, Cynic wrote: > Hi there, > > 4.3-RELEASE, KDE (all packages) installed at the system-install time. > (dev+X config). I wanted to uninstall the kde{games,multimedia,toys} > packages in /stand/sysinstall, but got something along these lines: > > "Unable to uninstall, kde{games,multimedia,toys} required by kdebase." > > Now, this seems to be nonsense - it should be the other way around?! > Is this a bug somwhere, or have I screwed something? You might try uninstalling the metaport first. Then you will be able to remove the stuff you dont want. Sincerly, Chris Moline To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message