Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:11:33 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu> To: CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu>, Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>, Bborie Park <bkpark@ucdavis.edu>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome2 Removal Message-ID: <200304180811.33191.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> In-Reply-To: <200304180809.57060.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> References: <200304171605.h3HG5j825520@andrena.ucdavis.edu> <200304171057.05425.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <200304180809.57060.a.carter@intrasoft.lu>
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After reading the article again, I think you'll find it removes ALL your apps too (and if I remember doing it myself, removes KDE too). They will have to be re-installed... Anthony On Friday 18 April 2003 08:09, CARTER Anthony wrote: > There is a page in the manual that tells you how to do this (or is it the > FAQ, hold on...) > > here you go: > > http://freebsd.unixtech.be/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q5 > > in the gnome Faq...Removes all Gnome 1.x and 2.x Read it first, and get > this confirmed by someone who knows a bit more about FBSD than I. > > Anthony > > On Thursday 17 April 2003 19:57, Johnson David wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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