Re: finally got lenny installed
On 27/02/2008, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
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.
>>
>>
>>
>
> 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
Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It is the wrong way round from a user perspective.
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rob
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