Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:39:56 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@mangohealth.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Patrick Bowen <pbowen@fastmail.fm>, Low Kian Seong <freebsd.low@gmail.com> Subject: Re: How do uninstall a package and all it's dependencies ? Message-ID: <200604192040.10554.beech@mangohealth.org> In-Reply-To: <a6baaade0604192023p14af3f0atbcc29e4989170bdd@mail.gmail.com> References: <a6baaade0604182113jbc2ed0oc2bfe8f3f71088de@mail.gmail.com> <4446C7E5.3050101@fastmail.fm> <a6baaade0604192023p14af3f0atbcc29e4989170bdd@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart3140722.kAcgrq0IEe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline > 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 > > > if i install xfce4 package and then later I want to uninstall xfce4 = and=20 > > >*all* it's dependencies, how do i do it ? > > > > > 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 On Wednesday 19 April 2006 19:23, Low Kian Seong wrote: > 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 > wrong ? Add the -i flag. From the man: =2Di=20 --interactive Request confirmation before attempting to delete each package, regardless whether or not the standard in= put device is a terminal. A little more hands on, but it'll keep you from nuking something you want t= o=20 keep. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@mangohealth.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart3140722.kAcgrq0IEe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBERxCq2TFLCHYGSF0RAoxlAKCE38TC0uEY5chi3DVY2MGO63XM3QCaAz+3 Z5AnG4SbnEfMwjgQhUaIKNU= =cuwV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3140722.kAcgrq0IEe--
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