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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:38:41PM -0800, bobby fuesz wrote:
> After cheering to myself for getting debian up and running on my 701c, I've
> realized I've got a few problems...
> Keep in mind I installed from 17 floppies and filled in the blanks with apt.
>
> 1. I got a little greedy with my X apps and am new to debian... If I just do
> an apt-get remove gnome-base (or something) will it remove everything that
> relies on gnomes libs?(essentially what I want)
I think it would rather complain about the things that are installed and
which depend upon gnome-base. If you do this through dselect, it will list
the dependent packages, and you then mark them for removal, and it may then
find more... Or you can try the "remove gnome*" as suggested. I like
dselect because I want to know just what's going on - and have sometimes
found that a seemingly simnple package was going to lead to a big mess of
stuff I didn't really want to have installed on that machine. Apt's virtue
is that it hides a lot of administrivia; that's sometimes its biggest
drawback, too. ;-)
> format it to fat32(what the BIOS needs for hybernate). I ran gpart and it
> recognized my swap and root partitions but didn't seem to pick up anything
> other than header files... saying there were 0x000 bites available or used
> on those other parts.
Dunno about gpart yet. Try fdisk. You may notice this trend in my advice:
when something odd is going on, I tend to reach for the simpler tools. The
advanced ones tend to hide the picky details that you probably want to see
at such times.
I suppose it's possible that the install somehow decided to salvage that
disk space that you were wasting. :-(
> deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian potato kde contrib
It looks plausible, but I don't seem to be able to reach that site right now
either. Can you get to it by (manual) FTP? If not, the problem is surely
that it's just not reachable at this time.
Luck!
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