Re: Confused state of my system
On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 23:07, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> 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
>
> apt-get remove --purge libgtk*
>
> and packages such as the following will be removed with it:
>
> kdeadmin*
> kdelibs
> kdelibs-bin
There's probably a tangled web of dependancies.
> and many more which make NO sense.
>
> Also scheduled to go are these:
>
> mpeglib*
> mtr
> secpolicy
> timidity
This will explain it all:
$apt-cache show <foobar>
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