Hello everyone. Today I accidentally installed many new packages into my cygwin setup, namely X and Gnome, and I didn't want them. How do I uninstall them?
How this happened: 1) I noticed that I had not installed vim, I know I was shocked too, but nonetheless, it's true. 2) I ran setup.exe, a) got to the "Select Packages" screen b) searched for vim c) opened the Editors category d) clicked on the first one I saw Oops, I had accidentally selected the GTK interface to vim. e) setup.exe automatically selected the correct vim package as a package dependency, so I simply clicked the GTK vim again until it read "Skip." f) Clicked <Next> enough times to get it to run After several minutes of downloading, verifying, installing, configuring, post-installing, etc. I realized that it installed a lot of X and Gnome related packages. Now I want to remove them all because I don't want them. However, when I re-run setup.exe and try to click the various packages to uninstall, it changes other packages that I had previously selected to uninstall back to "keep." The only option I see that's available to me is to completely uninstall cygwin and then re-install the packages I do want. That does not sound fun and I'm hoping someone has a better idea of how to remove lots of related packages. Thanks, Brad. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
