Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:57:05 -0700 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: Bborie Park <bkpark@ucdavis.edu>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome2 Removal Message-ID: <200304171057.05425.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <200304171605.h3HG5j825520@andrena.ucdavis.edu> References: <200304171605.h3HG5j825520@andrena.ucdavis.edu>
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On Thursday 17 April 2003 09:05 am, Bborie Park wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to remove Grnome2 from my system. Doing pkg_delete only > removes gnome2-2.2.1, not all its associating files/libraries. So, > how do i completely remove Gnome2? Ah, a tough one. The problem is that there are several dozen dependencies for Gnome. Remove too many and you break other stuff. I did this once and it was a timeconsuming affair. There is no simple way to do this that I am aware of. Basically you need to find out what Gnome2 actually installed, then remove them manually. A place to start is to use "pkgversion -R gnome2", which will list all dependencies of an installed gnome2 package. But BEWARE! This will list *all* dependencies, including those required elsewhere. You do not want to remove all of this. So prune the list by hand. Then use -i and -n when using pkg_delete to see just what would be removed. I should redirect you to the freebsd-gnome mailing list where they may have a complete list of packages that they can give you. David
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