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From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Need to uninstall many packages, how?
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C476D40.60100@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTingEb_HFHfSN4u3WlIaX6UbqA6XWEVaNqyfjjoK@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/21/2010 5:18 PM, Brad De Vries wrote:
> Hello everyone.  Today I accidentally installed many new packages into
> my cygwin setup, namely X and Gnome, and I didn't want them.  How do I
> uninstall them?

If it really is all of Gnome and X11 that you want to uninstall, you can
trying uninstalling Gnome and then X11 in the "Category" view, in that order
and one at a time.

If you need to uninstall individual packages, then try Andy's suggestion.

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-21 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-21 21:50 Brad De Vries
2010-07-21 21:55 ` Andy Koppe
2010-07-22  3:01 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]
2010-07-22  4:55 ` Alex Leigh
2010-07-22  5:11   ` Christopher Faylor
2010-07-22  7:37     ` Andy Koppe
2010-07-22  5:13   ` Brad De Vries
2010-07-22 19:48     ` Andrey Repin
2010-07-26 17:10     ` Brad De Vries

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