Re: how to remove 'Games'
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 02:40:08PM -0700, qee iiii wrote:
> hi
> if i have to remove whole group called 'Games'
> instead of individual game, how do
> i do this using command prompt. and also is the name
> of the application displayed in KDE
> same as the name of the package associated with it.
I'd suggest using `aptitude' in it's curses mode. Look for 'kdegames':
If it's installed, you can see that it depends on a lot of individual
game packages. Each of these game packages should be listed with 'i A'
at the left-hand side: this means it is (i)nstalled and was
(A)utomatically. This suggests that removing kdegames will pull all
those with it.
However, kdegames itself is most likely marked 'i A', and was pulled in
by 'kde-amusements', which in turn was pulled in by 'kde'. Decide if
there are any dependencies of kde-amusements you want, and if not, you
can remove that.
However, finally, before you can remove kde-amusements you'll need to
look at the kde package, and it's dependencies. Since it depends on
kde-amusements, removing the latter will remove the former and all it's
dependencies. I'm willing to wager you want the other kde packages. Go
through each of the kde package's dependencies and mark them as
'manually installed' by pressing 'm'. You should see 'i A' change to
just 'i'. You should then be able to safely remove kdegames (hence
kde-amusements, hence kde) without taking anything else with it.
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