Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:22:31 -0500 From: "Patrick Bowen" <pbowen@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do uninstall a package and all it's dependencies ? Message-ID: <1145733751.29291.259685008@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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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 ? > > On 4/20/06, *Patrick Bowen* <pbowen@fastmail.fm > <mailto: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 *all* > >it's dependencies, how do i do it ? > > > >Thank you all in advance. > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" > > > > > > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" > > If the dependancy pkg is required by something else, then pkg_deinstall will tell me that it can't delete the dependancy pkg because its used by another pkg. Works like a charm. Patrick -- Patrick Bowen pbowen@fastmail.fm
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