On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 08:27:26PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * James D Strandboge (jstrand1@rochester.rr.com) [030422 20:50]: > > 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. > > I haven't tried this yet, but are you saying that using apt-get vs dpkg > will work differently ?? Aren't they more or less the same things > underneath ?? apt, in the end, uses dpkg, However, it would call something like 'dpkg -P gnome-session gnome-core gnome-...', ie, all the things that Depend on gnome-session. dpkg doesn't have enough information to do this (and it's not designed to), so it just says "Stuff Depends on this, I'm not touching it". -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: constitution Compsec Merlin radar Leitrim Vince Foster INSCOM
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