From: "Hans-Bernhard Bröker" <HBBroeker@t-online.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: can setup.exe uninstall all X11 packages automatically?
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d43823e-e8b2-d328-4714-e7b9113af59d@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOYLpW6kpzP-0VKnH1g_3bsihfbC7PkFyMaSzWOMA_diMGTfoA@mail.gmail.com>
Am 13.02.2017 um 18:56 schrieb Leo Lagos:
> I executed setup.exe, tried to do this with just one check (uninstall
> x11-org-server, I think I did), but it only uninstalled that package
> alone!
>
> I expected setup.exe to be smart enough to tell me "if you uninstall
> this X package, these others W, Y, Z,etc., will also be
> uninstalled"... but no...
>
> So, is setup.exe smart enough to do this? Or do I have to know exactly
> which packages to uninstall, one by one??? :(
Got to the "Category" view, find the X11 category, single-click the
circle-of-arrows icon a couple times until it reads: Uninstall. You may
have to blanket-uninstall some other categories, too (KDE, Xfce, GNOME,
LXDE, ...) for this to work. GO.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-13 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-13 17:56 Leo Lagos
2017-02-13 21:19 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker [this message]
2017-02-14 2:20 ` Brian Inglis
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