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How to UNINSTALL a program under Linux

Since you replied first let me ask you this. I had to rebuild my laptop and I installed FreeBSD 4.6 on it. I'm trying to keep it small as possible w/o installing the unnecessary software that comes with RH and Drake. So, I installed Fluxbox and it's nice and fast. Then I realie I needed a browser, so I installed galeon. Good lord, two and half hour later it was still chugging away. It seemed to me it was trying to download gnome. I udnerstand the libraries are required, but what's the point of installing a small WM such as Fuxbox only to have to instal libraries from KDE or GNOME.

So, I had to cancel whatever galeon was doing and now I need to uninstall whatever it installed in the process. I am assuming it was compiling galeon.
 
I did this by ports. It downloaded the source for mozilla and then some. A 'pkg_info' showed many libs in regards to GNOME. I went from 499MB after the installation with fluxbox to a little over a GB after a failed attempt to install GNOME 2.0.

I'm not cheap with space, but the whole point of installing BSD was because I wanted a small and fast OS to work with. If I wanted an OS that took over a GB of space I wouldve stayed with RH.
 
i ended up doing that manually for 10 or more progs that were installed during the attempted installation of gnome 2.0. It sucked becuz it kept complaining of dependecies.
 
Uninstall dependancies first, or risk breaking something (something you are probably uninstalling anyhow) with the -f flag.
 
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