Re: Uninstalling Gnome

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Curt <curty@free.fr> writes:

> On 2016-11-29, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
>> On 2016-11-29, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> See the deborphan package. It is useful for trimming unwanted (and
>>>> unneeded) packages from your system.
>>>
>>> I ran `deborphan --guess-all' but it seems to me that it wants to remove
>>> some packages that I use a lot, like, e.g., musixtex and pmx.  So it
>>> doesn't seem to be very reliable...
>>
>> Well, it was a guess.
>>
>> I think you're going to be obliged to cherry pick the software you want
>> to hold on to, e.g. 'apt-mark manuel pmx'.
>>
>> Or I believe you can perform an 'apt-get install pmx musixtex' etc for a
>> similar if not identical result.
>
> Maybe an identical result actually.


Both show that the package is already installed.  What do you mean?

Rodolfo