From: Brad De Vries <devriesbj@gmail.com>
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Need to uninstall many packages, how?
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTingEb_HFHfSN4u3WlIaX6UbqA6XWEVaNqyfjjoK@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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?
How this happened:
1) I noticed that I had not installed vim, I know I was shocked too,
but nonetheless, it's true.
2) I ran setup.exe,
a) got to the "Select Packages" screen
b) searched for vim
c) opened the Editors category
d) clicked on the first one I saw
Oops, I had accidentally selected the GTK interface to vim.
e) setup.exe automatically selected the correct vim package as a
package dependency, so I simply clicked the GTK vim again until it
read "Skip."
f) Clicked <Next> enough times to get it to run
After several minutes of downloading, verifying, installing,
configuring, post-installing, etc. I realized that it installed a lot
of X and Gnome related packages. Now I want to remove them all
because I don't want them. However, when I re-run setup.exe and try
to click the various packages to uninstall, it changes other packages
that I had previously selected to uninstall back to "keep."
The only option I see that's available to me is to completely
uninstall cygwin and then re-install the packages I do want. That
does not sound fun and I'm hoping someone has a better idea of how to
remove lots of related packages.
Thanks,
Brad.
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next reply other threads:[~2010-07-21 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-21 21:50 Brad De Vries [this message]
2010-07-21 21:55 ` Andy Koppe
2010-07-22 3:01 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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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