Re: Pipe help

[James D Strandboge <jstrand1@rochester.rr.com>]

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 19:51, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> I've finally decided to give Gnome the boot...
> 
> I was hoping that something like "dpkg --purge gnome-session" would warn
> me that packages a, b, c, and so on would also be removed because of
> dependency issues. It didn't... So, I have to remove things "by hand",
> individually. But, something like "dpkg --get-selections | grep gnome"
> reports some handy info. I can do something with that, can't I ?? It's
> definitely a start too. After that, "deborphan" or similar can help me
> clean up after that.

Try:

apt-get remove --purge libgnome

or the like (double check the package name with 'dpkg -l | grep
libgnome').  If you want to get really clean:

apt-get remove --purge libglib1.2-dev

That will rip out a lot of stuff.

Jamie

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