Gnome2 Removal

[CARTER Anthony]

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
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