From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 17 0:11:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98DA37B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:11:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E6C43F65 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 00:11:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd-q@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0H8Bwx2060697; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:11:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stable@ei.bzerk.org) Received: (from stable@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0H8BwYB060696; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:11:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:11:58 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: Dilshod Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A quick way of uninstalling a set of applications? Message-ID: <20030117081158.GA60669@ei.bzerk.org> References: <006c01c2bdfc$daa43cc0$5f4f0844@DT> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <006c01c2bdfc$daa43cc0$5f4f0844@DT> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:48:41PM -0800, Dilshod typed: > Hello guys, once again. > > Many thanks to the previous responders to my question 'Customizing the > console - Changing the resolution'. Their answers were exactly what I > was looking for. > > I am tempted to ask you, readers of this news-group, a question again, > but I promise I'll try not overwhelm you with my questions. I needed to > ask you because I didn't want to reinvent the wheel. > > Here is my question: Is there any way to uninstall a set of applications > (the application that are interrelated through dependencies)? The reason > I need to do that is because I've installed Gnome 1.4 on a clean OS, but > soon I realized I wanted Gnome 2. In the process of installing Gnome 1.4 > pkg_add has installed many additional software that were needed for > Gnome 1.4. If I want to uninstall Gnome 1.4, pkg_delete would leave the > rest on my machine which I definitely don't need them, and will have > problem I if I were to install Gnome 2.0. In your case, since you say you installed on a clean OS, pkg_delete -a will remove all installed packages. Otherwise, pkg_delete -r may be usefull. See man pkg_delete. > > Thanks again, > > DT > > > 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