Re: What's the right way to rm packages?
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:21:43PM +0000, s. keeling wrote:
> I blew away CUPS last night, not noticing it was taking Gnome with
> it. In the past, I've mixed "aptitude remove" with "dpkg -r", then
> cleaning up after the result.
>
> What's the right way with aptitude? How do I not blow away
> $SOMEWANTEDPACKAGE correctly?
>
> I'm running sarge.
>
I always use aptitude in the interactive mode; you press "g" and it
shows a list of packages to be installed or removed, and you can change
the list.
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