On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 06:05:10PM -0500, Lute Mullenix wrote: > I recently did a Woody upgrade on an old IBM. I have been running Woody > for a couple of months now with no problems, however since doing the > update/upgrade thing a couple of days ago, my X is all messed up. > > To start with X would not start at all because for some reason > /etc/X11/X just disappeared. After relinking that it started with > enlightenment and gnome, this really upset me since I have spent many > hours setting up Icewm just the way I want it, and I don't like gnome > or KDE. I just don't use them! Through gnome I was able to get it to use > Icewm, but that #@$!! gnome is still there. How do I GET RID OF IT? Is > there a way to undo the update/upgrade so things will go back to the way > they were before? > > I like the idea of getting the newer versions of the apps I use, but if > it's going to mess up my whole system every time I do an upgrade, it's > just not worth it. I like Debian, but this whole thing is really > starting to tick me off. # apt-get remove gnome\* will remove gnome packages and their dependencies. Are you doing dselect upgrades, or apt-get upgrades? -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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