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 unfulfilled dependencies to the list of packages
to be deleted, unless forced to proceed without deleting any other packages
by the -f option.
pkg delete avoids deleting itself unless
named specifically on the command line. So, for instance,
pkg delete -a will delete
all packages except for the
pkg(8) package. To force all packages to be removed without
exception, use pkg delete
-fa.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported by pkg
delete:
-a,--all- Deletes all installed packages except for pkg(8) from the system and cleans the database of information related to removed packages.
-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. In
combination with the
-aor--allflag, causes pkg(8) to be removed as well as all other packages. -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 modified by settingCASE_SENSITIVE_MATCHto 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
-nis also used, whenpkg deletewill 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 deletion.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of
pkg delete. See
pkg.conf(5) for further description.
DEFAULT_ALWAYS_YESASSUME_ALWAYS_YESHANDLE_RC_SCRIPTSPKG_DBDIRCASE_SENSITIVE_MATCH
FILES
See pkg.conf(5).
SEE ALSO
pkg_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)