Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 13:00:29 -0500 From: Kutulu <kutulu@kutulu.org> To: Erik Sabowski <airyk@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: uninstalling a port Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011101125228.009f9d90@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0111011839590.9740-100000@sdf.lonestar.org>
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At 06:41 PM 11/01/2001 +0000, Erik Sabowski wrote: >I want to uninstall a port, so i went to it's directory in the ports tree >and ran 'make deinstall'. this didn;t work because i upgraded the ports >tree since then, so what is there is a different version than what is >installed. does that mean pkg_delete is the way to uninstall it? even >though i didn;t install it from a package? thanks for any help Yes, pkg_delete will delete ports installed from /usr/ports as well as packages installed with pkg_add. You can also install the sysutils/portupgrade port and use pkg_deinstall from that, which has some extra functions, like recursive uninstallations (both 'up' and 'down' the dependancy chain'). --K To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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