From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 10 18:35:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEC0637B404 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:35:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31084 invoked by uid 100); 11 Mar 2002 02:35:53 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15500.6152.553723.286330@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:35:52 -0600 To: "Paul C. Boyle" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing installed programs? In-Reply-To: <200203101957.OAA06048@alpha.vaxxine.com> References: <15499.45998.333621.513832@guru.mired.org> <200203101957.OAA06048@alpha.vaxxine.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) 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 Paul C. Boyle types: > On March 10, 2002 02:27 pm, you wrote: > > Paul C. Boyle types: > > > What is the best way to remove installed programs that were installed > > > through the ports? > > If you don't clean the ports, use "make deinstall" in the port > > directory. If you do clean the ports, use "pkg_delete" on the > > installed package. > What do you mean by clean the ports? # cd /usr/ports// Some of my KDE is pooched. > I installed from the 4.5 iso. Most of KDE was not there so I installed what > was missing from /stand/sysinstall using my 4.4 iso disk. It seemed to work. > Now, my backgrounds disapear. KDE file manager acts up. When in icon mode, > if I move the cursor over the icon area the file manager disapears. I can > fix it by going to View, View Mode, Detailed List View, or Text View, or Tree > View. > Whats the best way to go here, to get everything in working order? I don't use KDE, or GNOME, or any of the other brick-makers people like to cover their desktop with. Personally, I'd cvsup to the latest ports, pkg-delete all the kde stuff, and rebuild it from scratch. But that may not be the best way to do it. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message