On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:42:30PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:32:08PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:40:01PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments > > > that won't mess up apt..? > > I want to remove all the crud from my system in order to be able to run > backups that are fast, small, and simple. > > I installed gnome and kde at one point but I never use them. > > I have no intention of reinstalling them at a later date. okay, that makes way more sense ;) If you installed them using "gnome-desktop-environment" and kde's equivalent, then just uninstall those meta-packages and see what else it tries to take away. If it takes more than you want, then try taking out the next level of packages down from the meta-packages (apt-cache show gnome-desktop-environment | grep DEPENDS) and work your way through it. I agree with the others here that aptitude is way more suited to this kind of task. You can mark the meta package for removal and then press 'g' to see the proposed actions. Then you can scroll through the list of removals and mark '+' all the stuff you want to keep. Very easy. A
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