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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Martin Maney wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:38:41PM -0800, bobby fuesz wrote:
> > 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. ;-)
If you use apt-get remove, it will take out the package and
those dependent on the package.
For instance, apt-get remove samba-common gives me
--
The following packages will be REMOVED:
samba-common smbclient
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 4643kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
--
Dselect is a nice tool as well for the reasons mentioned above.
> > deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian potato kde contrib
I'm not familiar with that site. Do they have an http version?
e.g.,
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
(Various debates as to the virtues of ftp vs. http for this sort of
thing.)
Steve
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