Edgar Pettijohn wrote:

>  On Jan 17, 2019 7:35 AM, Pedro Pinho <pmppi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > While we are at it... is there a pkgin command to remove every installed 
> package?
>
>  I don't think so. I do it like so:
>
>  pkg_info | awk '{print $1}' > pkgs.txt
>
>  remove pkgin from the list
>
>  while read -r pkg; do
>  pkgin remove $pkg
>  done < pkgs.txt
>
>  forgive errors. I'm writing from memory on my phone.

Do you need to use pkgin (which I've never used) or can you use
pkg_delete?  This will remove all installed packages:

        pkg_delete -r '*'

Cheers,
Simon.

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