PKG_DEINSTALL(1) BSD General Commands Manual PKG_DEINSTALL(1)NAMEpkg_deinstall — a package deinstaller with wildcards and dependency
recursion support
SYNOPSISpkg_deinstall [-hacdDfinOPqrRv] [-p prefix] [-x pkgname_glob]
[pkgname_glob ...]
DESCRIPTION
The pkg_deinstall command is a wrapper of pkg_delete(1) used to deinstall
packages, which understands wildcards and is capable of recursing through
dependencies.
Before reading these instructions, you must understand that a port/pack‐
age can have the following two types of related ports/packages:
required Ports/packages that a port/package needs for it to be built
and/or run. Port Makefiles refer to this type of ports/pack‐
ages using the BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS macros, respec‐
tively.
dependent Ports/packages that need this port/package.
OPTIONS
The following command line arguments are supported. The options marked
as ‘[*]’ are transparently passed to pkg_delete(1).
pkgname_glob Specify one of these: a full pkgname, a pkgname with‐
out version, a shell glob pattern in which you can
use wildcards ‘*’, ‘?’, and ‘[..]’, an extended regu‐
lar expression preceded by a colon ‘:’, or a date
range specification preceded by either ‘<’ or ‘>’.
See pkg_glob(1) for details and concrete examples.
-h
--help Show help and exit.
-a
--all Deinstall all the installed packages. Equivalent to
specify '*' as pkgname_glob.
-c
--collate For each package, check if any of the files installed
by the package has been overwritten by others. If
any, list them and abort the deinstallation of the
package. This option is disabled by the -f option.
-d
--rmdir Remove empty directories created by file cleanup. By
default, only files/directories explicitly listed in
a package's contents (either as normal files/directo‐
ries or with the @dirrm directive) will be removed at
deinstallation time. This option tells pkg_deinstall
to also remove any directories that were emptied as a
result of removing the package. [*]
-D
--noscripts If a deinstallation script exists for a given pack‐
age, do not execute it. [*]
-f
--force Force removal of the package, even if a dependency is
recorded or the deinstall or require script fails.
[*]
-i
--interactive Request confirmation before attempting to delete each
package, regardless whether or not the standard input
device is a terminal.
-n
--noexecute Do not actually deinstall a package, just report the
steps that would be taken if it were. [*]
-O
--omit-check Omit sanity checks for dependencies. By default,
pkg_deinstall checks if all the packages to deinstall
have consistent dependencies, though it takes extra
time to calculate dependencies. If you are sure you
have run “pkgdb -F” in advance, you can specify this
option to omit the sanity checks.
-p prefix
--prefix prefix Set prefix as the directory in which to delete files
from any installed packages which do not explicitly
set theirs. For most packages, the prefix will be
set automatically to the installed location by
pkg_add(1). [*]
-P
--preserve Preserve FreeBSD shared library files. pkg_deinstall
invokes file(1) to check if each file with the
“.so.X”, or “.so.X.Y” suffix is a FreeBSD shared
library, copies all the found shared libraries to
$LOCALBASE/lib/compat/pkg, and runs ldconfig(8) to
update the ldconfig cache.
This option is useful when you suspect that you still
have some binaries that depend on the shared library
being deleted.
-q
--noconfig Do not read the configuration file. ($PREFIX/etc/pkg‐
tools.conf)
-r
--recursive Deinstall all those packages depending on the given
packages as well.
-R
--upward-recursive Deinstall all those packages required by the given
packages as well.
-v
--verbose Turn on verbose output. [*]
-x pkgname_glob
--exclude pkgname_glob
Exclude packages matching the specified glob pattern.
Exclusion is performed after recursing dependency in
response to -r and/or -R, which means, for example,
the following command will deinstall all the packages
depending on XFree86 but leave XFree86 as it is:
pkg_deinstall-rx XFree86 XFree86
ENVIRONMENT
PKG_DBDIR Alternative location for the installed package database.
Default is “/var/db/pkg”
PKGTOOLS_CONF Configuration file for the pkgtools suite. Default is
“$PREFIX/etc/pkgtools.conf”.
FILES
/var/db/pkg Default location of the installed package
database.
$LOCALBASE/lib/compat/pkg Location where shared library files are pre‐
served.
$PREFIX/etc/pkgtools.conf Default location of the pkgtools configuration
file.
SEE ALSOpkg_add(1), pkg_delete(1), pkg_glob(1), pkg_info(1), pkg_sort(1),
pkgdb(1), portinstall(1), portsclean(1), portupgrade(1),
pkgtools.conf(5), ports(7)AUTHORS
Akinori MUSHA ⟨knu@iDaemons.org⟩
FreeBSD June 13, 2006 FreeBSD
