How to Totally!! nuke X11?
I got bit the other day by unstable's xserver-xorg bug, and now I can't
seem to recover from it. I've now got things so completely horked that I
think it's best just to purge all of X11 from this box and do a clean
install of X (not of Debian itself, just of the X Window System bits).
Problem is, nothing I do will completely purge it. aptitude
(command-line and menu) fight me. I keep telling it to purge all of the
X11 system and it keeps saying that'll break things so let's update
things instead. NO!!! I want to PURGE the thing!!!
Arg! This is like dealing with Microsoft!! (apologies to you Debian
maintainers; y'all usually do such a great job, but this is really,
really frustrating)
apt-get and dselect have been similarly useless for this task.
Even when I do get all the dependencies and such to remove as much as I
can, nothing seems to get rid of the /etc/X11 directory. So I renamed
it, and reinstalled x-window-system, thinking that'd restore things to a
working set.
Nope. Apparently, the package x-window-system does not pull in
everything, for whereas it created a new /etc/X11 directory, it was
missing such things as Xwrapper.config.
Whew! Sorry for yelling and complaing. Needed to blow a bit of steam.
Okay, my question. How do I _completely_ purge X11 so that I can do a
completely clean reinstall (that generates xorg.conf, etc)?
Thanks!
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Kent
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