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Re: Confused state of my system



* nate (debian-user@aphroland.org) [030423 02:16]:
> 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 ..

I've got a fast connection myself and that's why I'm not too hesitant
about letting it take out what it wants to. Maybe you've seen my other
post about where to get KDE for SID. :) 

Hall



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