Re: finally got lenny installed
On 2008-02-27 02:05 +0100, Robin wrote:
> On 26/02/2008, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
>>
>> I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other
>> packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome
>> environment. I think I may just rename gdm to something else in order to
>> have a possibility of getting past the application non-destructively.
>>
>>
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>
> Checking my installation removing gdm will remove gnome-desktop-environment
> which is a package rather than the whole gnome desktop. The other stuff
> aptitude wants to remove is what aptitude *thinks* is no longer required. A
> suggestion would to install synaptic, a graphical front-end to apt, as
> your package manager which I think is clearer in a some instances.
Why that? If aptitude wants to remove these packages, this is because
they were automatically installed as a dependency of
gnome-desktop-environment, and the solution is simply to mark everything
you would like to keep as manually installed.
Sven
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