Gnome2 Removal

[CARTER Anthony]

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
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