X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:01:23 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Need to uninstall many packages, how? From: Alex Leigh To: cygwin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Brad De Vries wrote: > > After several minutes of downloading, verifying, installing, > configuring, post-installing, etc. I realized that it installed a lot > of X and Gnome related packages. =A0Now I want to remove them all > because I don't want them. =A0However, 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. =A0That > does not sound fun and I'm hoping someone has a better idea of how to > remove lots of related packages. > I've also run into this annoyance and I found another workaround you could try. First, empty the Cygwin package cache on your local computer. Then run Setup.exe, choosing "Install from local directory". Then you can click on packages to uninstall them without cycling through the "Reinstall" option which is what's causing dependent packages to be reset to "Keep". Alex -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple