> On Sep 10, 2015, at 4:21 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > > On Sep 10, 2015, at 17:55, David Epstein wrote: >> >> It took me a long time to uninstall gimp. >> >> I tried >> port list gimp >> and got the reply >> gimp @2.8.14 graphics/gimp >> >> Was I supposed to realise from this reply that I needed to give the command >> sudo port uninstall gimp2 >> ?? >> >> I initially tried >> sudo port uninstall gimp >> and the command completed without comment or response. >> >> Is this difficulty special to gimp, or is there some MacPorts convention or >> rule that I don’t know about? > > "port list" tells you about ports that are available, not ports that are > installed. If you want to know what ports are installed, for example so that > you can uninstall some of them, use the command "port installed". > > If you want to restrict the list of installed ports to those containing a > certain substring such as "gimp" you can use "port installed name:gimp".
The port man page is pretty good: $ man port Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
