Re: Uninstall X

["Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>]

on Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:56:04PM -0800, Dominic Iadicicco (dnotch825@yahoo.com) wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know how to unistall Xfree86?  Without using deselect.
> Example deleting files and links and so forth...

    # dpkg --get-selections | grep xfree

...will show the major packages.

If you want to nuke most of X, an expedient that may work is:

    # apt-get remove xlibs

...as virtually all of the rest of X depends on this package.  Untested,
YMMV.


> If you know of any good books or websites that would be of any help
> please make suggestions.

The Debian users & administrators guides:

    http://www.debian.org/doc/

Peace.

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