FreeBSD6 Unleashed

Removing and Updating Packages

There is no front end in Sysinstall for removing packages. You really don’t need one because once a package is installed, you can specify its name directly using the commandline package management tools.

You can use pkg_info to see which packages you have installed, as you learned earlier. You can also simply look in /var/db/pkg; the directory names in there are the same as the package names. After you have the name of the package you want to delete, simply use pkg_delete to remove it, like this:

# pkg_delete pine-4.60

If the package has any dependencies, pkg_delete will detect them and refuse to proceed unless you’ve run it with the -f option to force deinstallation. It will also attempt to run any deinstallation ...