Re: Confused state of my system

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Hall Stevenson said:
> I'm still trying to rid anything gnome and/or gtk-related from my system
> and have gotten very, very confused with something ! At this point,
> there's nothing returned from "dpkg --get-selections | grep gnome". I do
> get a few results from "dpkg --get-selections | grep gtk" though. So, I
> try and do this


when I get in such a situation(which is quite rare since I run stable,
haven't run testing since june ?) sometimes I just find it easiest to
remove all of X. and reinstall from there on up. This is sure to nab
everything related to X. If your on a dialup connection it may take
some time to reinstall the software but my systems are on fast connections
so reinstalls take only a few minutes ..

apt-get remove xlibs

on my laptop here that would of removed:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  aalib1 afterstep asmon communicator communicator-base-477
  communicator-smotif-477 gdk-imlib1 gdm gimp1.2 gnome-bin gnome-libs-data
  gnome-terminal gnotepad+ gqview gs-aladdin imagemagick jpilot kdebase-libs
  kdelibs3 kdelibs3-bin konqueror konsole libgdk-pixbuf2 libgimp1.2
  libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32
  libgnorba27 libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-dev libgtkxmhtml1 libkonq3 libmagick5
  libmng-dev libqt2 libqt3 libqt3-dev libqt3-mt libqxt0 libsdl1.2-dev
  libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-oss libungif4g libwmf0.2-2 libxaw6 libxaw7
  libxaw7-dev libxine0 mozilla mozilla-browser mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm
  mtv netscape-base-4 netscape-base-477 opera-static qt3-tools qtopia-desktop
  root-tail t1lib1 wmapm wmfire wmifs wminet wmitime wmmon xautolock xaw3dg
  xbase-clients xfig xine-ui xli xlib6g xlibmesa3 xlibs xlibs-dev xloadimage
  xlockmore xmcd xmms xnest xpdf xpdf-reader xpenguins xscreensaver
  xscreensaver-nognome xsnow xvncviewer xwave

bang! :)

nate