Re: how NOT to work with debian
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Also sprach Richard Lyons (Mon 11 Aug 02003 at 09:35:00AM +0200):
> On Monday 11 August 2003 5:06 am, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> [...kde dead after upgrade...]
>
> > Try this:
> >
> >
> > <http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=gxXP.6fz.7%4
> >0gated-at.bofh.it>
>
> We-ell. That looks horrible. 31 or 32 packages to remove by name (and the
> names of several are truncated by the display from dpkg -l so I don't even
> know them all). But dpkg --configure kdebase leads to dependency hell. And
> those instructions are for woody, where mine is (or rather was)
> testing/unstable courtesy of Knoppix. So would it work for me?
All I know is that I looked high and low for a way to completely remove
everything kde, and could not find it. I came up with this brute force
method, and it worked for me.
Bottomline, as good as apt/dpkg is, remove is *not* the same as purge,
and -- even then -- some things remain, and interfere with the
reinstall.
I strongly urge you to remove everything kde, and start over -- clean.
For those incomplete dpkg -l entries, you can do a creative apt-cache
search, and figure it out . . .
Obviously, this is a very last resort . . .
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