Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?
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!!!
I just did
$ dpkg -P --force-depends xserver-xorg && apt-get install xserver-xorg
to my machine. It purges xserver-xorg despite the dependencies and
immediately reinstalls it, writing a new xorg.conf file. [1]
If that's what you want...
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)
I think someone should fix bug really soon. It really strained my nerves
before I found above solution.
HTH,
Johannes
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373961
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