Re: Informal Distribution Survey

[Kevin Mitchell <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You betcha!  pkgtool will remove packages that were installed previously.

Kevin

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Bruce Smith wrote:

> > > I haven't looked at Slackware since 3.0.  Are they using RPM now, 
> > > or are they still ".tgz" (tar) based?
> > 
> > Slackware still uses the .tgz extention, but you can install RPM (there is
> > a mini HOW-TO) or you can use pkgtool which will install any new packages
> > from a Slackware distribution.
> 
> Okay, that's fine for new packages in slackware, but what about
> existing packages?  How do you remove an existing package that 
> was installed during the initial Slackware install?  Does Slackware
> have a tool to do this?
> 
> We did a Slackware 3.5 install last night at the meeting, and it went 
> very well.  For example, one of the packages we installed was Emacs.  
> How would the owner of the machine uninstall Emacs if he decides he 
> doesn't want it today?
> 
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> Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
> System Administrator / Network Administrator
> Armstrong International, Inc.
> Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
> http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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