Re: Delete part of metapackage?
On 08/27/2006 08:23 AM, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
Greetings:
I'm loading Sarge onto a donated computer at a school for K through
grade 2. The hard drive has only a 2.2 GB capacity, so once I load
the KDE and Gnome metapackages I only have about 120 MB left.
Then don't install the KDE and Gnome metapackages.
The kids don't need all of this software, but it seems that I can't
delete or install individual programs (knode, for example) without
deleting or installing the entire KDE metapackage. Is that correct?
Is there a way around this?
-- Elmer
There are ways around it.
If you were installing anew, I'd advise you to, using
aptitude, install only those programs from KDE and Gnome that
you need; however, at this point, you need to remove packages.
In aptitude, you can mark those packages you want to keep
(such as knode) as NOT being automatically installed and then
remove the metapackages, e.g.:
aptitude unmarkauto knode ksirtet
aptitude remove kde
aptitude unmarkauto nautilus gconf-editor
aptitude remove gnome
These commands would remove most of KDE and Gnome but leave
knode, ksirtet, nautilus, and the gconf-editor.
HTH
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