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Date:      Thu, 11 May 2000 21:58:35 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
To:        David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
Cc:        newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Martin <Martin.Zibert1@guest.arnes.si>
Subject:   Re: remove pkg, prefix
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000511215835.conrads@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <391AE6A6.48B19134@acuson.com>

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On 11-May-00 David Johnson wrote:
> Martin wrote:
>> 
>> Greetings..
>> 
>> Thanks for all the help with DNS. It's working fine. BTW: Len -> your
>> page is a very good resource !!
>> 
>> I have another question:
>> How do i remove a programe that i installed ? Lets say i downloaded
>> apache_1.3.11 and installed it, and now i want to delete it. How do i
>> do
>> that ? (deleting the dir doesn't count).
> 
> Typically, if you compiled this yourself from sources (and is not a
> port), then typing "make uninstall" in the build directory does the
> trick.

Assuming, of course, that the Makefile is configured exactly as it was
when the package was installed.  If you used any custom settings when
building/installing the package, and have since then done a "make clean"
or "make distclean" or whatever, you'll have to re-run configure with
exactly the same options as you did before.

This is why it's much easier to use the ports collection, if possible.

> If it's from a port, type "make deinstall" in the build directory
> instead.

Or pkg_delete [-f] package-name

-- 
Conrad Sabatier
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