Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?
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Kent West wrote:
> 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!!!
That's your problem. aptitude sucks.
[snip]
> Okay, my question. How do I _completely_ purge X11 so that I can
> do a completely clean reinstall (that generates xorg.conf, etc)?
Try apt-get. I'd start with:
# apt-get --purge remove libx11-6 x11-common libxau6
There will need to be multiple iterations of "COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l"
to grep for any remaining files.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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