Re: Removing Helix libgtk1.2

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Glyn Millington <glyn@mill29.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>A while back I toyed with the Helix version of Gnome - bad decision.
>Have since been weeding out the Helix packagaes that cause all kinds of
>crossed wires in normal debian upgrades.  
>
>I've found that I still have the Helix libgtk1.2 - but a simple 
>
>dpkg --purge libgtk1.2 wants to take about 30 (normal debian)packages with
>it!
>
>Is there a neat way of removing the Helix package and replacing it with
>the debian version of libgtk1.2 without stripping out and re-installing
>half my favourite programmes?

Just install the Debian version of libgtk1.2 over it? It might take a
bit of fiddling if the dependencies are different.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]