Re: A simple problem with dselect ...
Richard,
You can do a 'dpkg --purge <package name>
Steve Mayer
smayer@rtd.com
Richard B. Talley wrote:
>
> Nebu John Mathai <mathai@ecf.utoronto.ca> writes this day 25 Feb 98:
>
> > I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the
> > package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every
> > package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had
> > asked it for).
> >
> > I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is.
>
> It's not your stupidity but the computer's, or rather its lack of
> a sense of context for your request.
>
> The remove command removes all selected programs.
>
> The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs
> currently installed that have been deselected by the user.
>
> Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and
> choose *install*. This makes sense but only if you think like a computer.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard B. Talley <olny@nmia.com>
>
> "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to
> be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading
> a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network."
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> quoted at 'Best Viewed With Any Browser' http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
>
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