From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 10:57:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1528837B401 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:57:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C9E43FCB for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HDI003UM1V4KZ@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:57:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:47:35 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-117.acuson.com ([157.226.46.117]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id GNSXPSBR; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:48:55 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:57:05 -0700 From: Johnson David In-reply-to: <200304171605.h3HG5j825520@andrena.ucdavis.edu> To: Bborie Park , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-id: <200304171057.05425.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <200304171605.h3HG5j825520@andrena.ucdavis.edu> Subject: Re: Gnome2 Removal X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:57:43 -0000 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