simple question...how to show packages which depend upon

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Thu Nov 30 04:50:44 PST 2006


On Thursday November 30, 2006 at 07:25:32 (AM) Graham Bentley wrote:


> And ... how to remove a package and all the packages
> it sucked in ?
> 
> All I get from pkg_delete that it isnt even installed when 
> I know it is because that was the previous command I
> just ran !!!

Are you sure you are feedin it the correct information? Try this:

	pkg_info -Ix PROGRAM_NAME (-> gives you the exact installed
version of PROGRAM_NAME installed.)

Now feed that to:

	pkg_delete -vdfr PROGRAM_NAME

That should do it.

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Gerard

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