Re: How do I clear out a list
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:30:20PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote:
| I wanted to remove all the ximian files from my system since they are
| giving me a lot of problems. I also wanted to change to Progeny since I
| have a vidio card that works better under xfree 4.x then xfree 3.x. So, I
| followed the instructions on how to do this.
X4 is available in Woody -- I am using it right now and am very happy
with it.
| My problem is that the ximian files are still listed in my dselect list
| even though I have taken the site out of my sources.list file. How do I
| get rid of them so I can install the ones from progeny and debian sites?
Are they still installed? I think if you uninstall them, then run
'apt-get autoclean' after an 'apt-get update' they will be removed
from the list of existing packages.
HTH,
-D
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