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davecom · Jan 11, 2003, 08:16 PM

I want to install Apple's X implementation and hence uninstall my self installed 4.2.0 of XFree86. How do I do so?

Axel · Jan 11, 2003, 08:27 PM

If you installed xfree86 with fink, you just have to type the following command (according to the fink sourceforge website) :
sudo dpkg -r --force-depends xfree86-rootless xfree86-rootless-shlibs xfree86-base xfree86-base-shlibs
That's what I did myself, and I haven't had any problems so far running other fink installed X apps on Apple's X11 implementation...

davecom · Jan 11, 2003, 08:31 PM

I didn't use fink. I used the binaries and install script from the XFree86 website.

gorgonzola · Jan 12, 2003, 02:27 AM

Well, a lot (all?) of X11 is stored in /usr/X11R6, so you could just delete that whole directory. As for the stuff that's installed elsewhere, I don't know of a very clean way of deleting it. I suppose one way of really making sure would be doing an lsbom on the Archive.bom file inside the X11 installer package receipt in /Library/Receipts. Then you could run a quick script to delete all the files listed in that archive.

In any case, hosing /usr/X11R6 will certainly destroy a lot of it.