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Date:      Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:36:44 +0000
From:      Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
To:        Alex Davidson <alexd@idcomm.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: pkg_delete usage
Message-ID:  <364C43FC.487CD371@tdx.co.uk>
References:  <364C3E22.FD5B3FB3@idcomm.com>

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Alex Davidson wrote:
> 
> Having installed some .tgz files using pkg_add I thought I could use
> 'pkg_delete filename' but it says the filename isn't registered (or
> something like that).
> 
> What is the real usage?

Try 'man pkg_delete'? ;-)

Seriously, try the manual pages... Looking through them :-

pkg_info -I -a

Will show you all the packages the system thinks it has installed, then you
should be able to do:

pkg_delete pacakge-name

(e.g. on my system I could remove squid with "pkg_delete squid-2.0")

Regards,

Karl

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