Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A while back I toyed with the Helix version of Gnome - bad decision. >Have since been weeding out the Helix packagaes that cause all kinds of >crossed wires in normal debian upgrades. > >I've found that I still have the Helix libgtk1.2 - but a simple > >dpkg --purge libgtk1.2 wants to take about 30 (normal debian)packages with >it! > >Is there a neat way of removing the Helix package and replacing it with >the debian version of libgtk1.2 without stripping out and re-installing >half my favourite programmes?
Just install the Debian version of libgtk1.2 over it? It might take a bit of fiddling if the dependencies are different. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]