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Date:      Sat, 13 Dec 2003 04:41:11 +0100 (CET)
From:      Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        Richard Shea <freebsdQ0@richardshea.fastmail.fm>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Removing Java ?
Message-ID:  <20031213042927.R44706@pukruppa.net>
In-Reply-To: <20031213004228.5A5B17EBA6@server2.messagingengine.com>
References:  <20031213004228.5A5B17EBA6@server2.messagingengine.com>

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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Richard Shea wrote:

> Hi - I've got a problem installing the JDK on FreeBSD 4.8 (see
> "/usr/ports/java/jdk13 - make all dumps - any suggestions ?" previous
> post for details) and as I don't know how to fix I was thinking that I
> might completely uninstall all Java related stuff and start again.
>
> So far I have obtained the Linux JDK, the sources for the JDK and the
> FreeBSD patchset for the JDK and done a 'make install'. In fact I've done
> a make install several times as the process fell over because certain
> dependencies weren't met and so I fixed those and restarted. I've now got
> to a point in the make where it just says 'illegal instruction'.
>
> So my question is what's the best way to clean every trace of Java from
> the box so I can start again and (maybe) get further this time ?
(I don't know if this is the _best_ way)
You can
# cd /var/db/pkg
# ls
will give you a list of all packages installed via ports,
sysinstall or pkg_add .
You can remove them by
# pkg_delete package_name
Also have a look at
# man pkg_delete
for force and recursive options.

Good Luck,

Uli.
>
> thanks
>
> richard shea.
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