PKG-UNREGISTER(8)

NAME
pkg unregister - deletes package records from the database

SYNOPSIS
pkg unregister [-fnqRy] [-Cgix] pkg-name ...
pkg unregister [-nqy] -a

pkg unregister [--{force,dry-run,quiet,recursive,yes}] [--{case-sensitive,glob,case-insensitive,regex}] pkg-name ...
pkg unregister [--{dry-run,quiet,yes}] --all

DESCRIPTION
pkg unregister is used for deleting installed packages from the database. pkg unregister creates a work-list of all the installed packages matching the package names on the command line. The list is presented to the user. If the user confirms that they do want to remove those packages from the db, or if the ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES configuration option is set, pkg unregister proceeds to remove from the db the listed packages.

If the set of packages to be unregistered would leave installed packages with unfulfilled dependencies, pkg unregister will add the packages with unfulfilled dependencies to the list of packages to be unregistered, unless forced to proceed without unregistering any other packages by the -f option.

pkg unregister avoids deleting itself unless named specifically on the command line. So, for instance, pkg unregister -a will unregister all packages from the db except for the pkg(8) package. To force all packages to be unregistered from the db without exception, use pkg unregister -fa.

OPTIONS
The following options are supported by pkg unregister:

-a, --all
    Deletes all installed packages from the db except for pkg(8) and cleans the database of information related to removed packages.

-C, --case-sensitive
    Make the standard or regular expression (-x) matching against pkg-name case sensitive. This is the default, unless modified by setting CASE_SENSITIVE_MATCH to false in pkg.conf.

-f, --force
    Forces packages to be removed from the db despite leaving unresolved dependencies. In combination with the -a or --all flag, causes pkg(8) to be removed as well as all other packages.

-g, --glob
    Treat the package names as shell glob patterns.

-i, --case-insensitive
    Make the standard or regular expression (-x) matching against pkg-name case insensitive.

-n, --dry-run
    Dry run mode. The list of packages to delete is always printed, but no packages are actually deleted.

-q, --quiet
    Force quiet output, except where -n is also used, when pkg unregister will show the list of packages to be deleted.

-R, --recursive
    Delete all packages that require the listed packages as well.

-x, --regex
    Treat the package names as regular expressions according to the "modern" or "extended" syntax of re_format(7).

-y, --yes
    Assume yes when asked for confirmation before package deletion.

ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of pkg unregister. See pkg.conf(5) for further description.

DEFAULT_ALWAYS_YES

ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES

HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS

PKG_DBDIR

CASE_SENSITIVE_MATCH

FILES
See pkg.conf(5).

SEE ALSO
pkg_checksum(3), pkg_create(3), pkg_printf(3), pkg_repo_create(3), pkg_repos(3), pkg-keywords(5), pkg-lua-script(5), pkg-repository(5), pkg-script(5), pkg-triggers(5), pkg.conf(5), pkg(8), pkg-add(8), pkg-alias(8), pkg-annotate(8), pkg-audit(8), pkg-autoremove(8), pkg-check(8), pkg-checksum(8), pkg-clean(8), pkg-config(8), pkg-create(8), pkg-delete(8), pkg-fetch(8), pkg-help(8), pkg-info(8), pkg-install(8), pkg-key(8), pkg-lock(8), pkg-plugins(8), pkg-query(8), pkg-register(8), pkg-repo(8), pkg-repositories(8), pkg-rquery(8), pkg-rwhich(8), pkg-search(8), pkg-set(8), pkg-shell(8), pkg-shlib(8), pkg-ssh(8), pkg-stats(8), pkg-triggers(8), pkg-update(8), pkg-updating(8), pkg-upgrade(8), pkg-version(8), pkg-which(8)