PKG-DELETE(8) BSD System Manager's Manual PKG-DELETE(8)NAME
pkg delete — deletes packages from the database and the system
SYNOPSIS
pkg delete [-DfnqRy] [-Cgix] pkg-name ...
pkg delete [-Dnqy] -a
pkg delete [--{no-deinstall-script,force,dry-run,quiet,recursive,yes}]
[--{case-sensitive,glob,case-insensitive,regex}] pkg-name ...
pkg delete [--{no-deinstall-script,dry-run,quiet,yes}] --all
DESCRIPTION
pkg delete is used for deleting installed packages from the system. pkg
delete creates a work-list of all the installed packages matching the
package names on the command line. The list is presented to the user.
If the user confirms that they do want to remove those packages, or if
the ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES configuration option is set, pkg delete proceeds to
remove the listed packages.
If the set of packages to be deleted would leave installed packages with
unfulfilled dependencies, pkg delete will add the packages with unful‐
filled dependencies to the list of packages to be deleted, unless force
to proceed without deleting any other packages by the -f option.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported by pkg delete:
-a, --all Deletes all installed packages from the system and empties the
database.
-C, --case-sensitive
Make the standard or regular expression (-x) matching against
pkg-name case sensitive.
-D, --no-deinstall-script
If a deinstallation script exists for a given package, do not
execute it.
-f, --force
Forces packages to be removed despite leaving unresolved
dependencies.
-g, --glob
Treat the package names as shell glob patterns.
-i, --case-insensitive
Make the standard or regular expression (-x) matching against
pkg-name case insensitive. This is the default, unless modi‐
fied by setting CASE_SENSITIVE_MATCH to true in pkg.conf.
-n, --dry-run
Dry run mode. The list of packages to delete is always
printed, but no packages are actually deleted.
-q, --quiet
Force quiet output, except where -n is also used, when pkg
delete will show the list of packages to be deleted.
-R, --recursive
Delete all packages that require the listed packages as well.
-x, --regex
Treat the package names as regular expressions according to
the "modern" or "extended" syntax of re_format(7).
-y, --yes Assume yes when asked for confirmation before package dele‐
tion.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of pkg delete.
See pkg.conf(5) for further description.
DEFAULT_ALWAYS_YES
ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES
HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS
PKG_DBDIR
CASE_SENSITIVE_MATCH
FILES
See pkg.conf(5).
SEE ALSOpkg_printf(3), pkg_repos(3), pkg-repository(5), pkg.conf(5), pkg(8),
pkg-add(8), pkg-annotate(8), pkg-audit(8), pkg-autoremove(8),
pkg-backup(8), pkg-check(8), pkg-clean(8), pkg-config(8), pkg-convert(8),
pkg-create(8), pkg-fetch(8), pkg-info(8), pkg-install(8), pkg-lock(8),
pkg-query(8), pkg-register(8), pkg-repo(8), pkg-rquery(8), pkg-search(8),
pkg-set(8), pkg-shell(8), pkg-shlib(8), pkg-ssh(8), pkg-stats(8),
pkg-update(8), pkg-updating(8), pkg-upgrade(8), pkg-version(8),
pkg-which(8)BSD November 18, 2014 BSD
