On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 00:22 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Shall I just apt-get remove gnome and then apt-get install it again? > > Or does that way madness lie?
Yes, madness awaits. But, more madness awaits trying to fix you gconf setup. I know, I completely rebuilt my gconf, everything under /etc/gconf/ I ended up completely removing and purging my machine of even X to fix the damn thing. I purged and manually removed *ANY* directories left over from the removal. Before you remove anything... make sure you get a good snapshot of everything installed. (dpkg --get-selections) And, also snap a list of everything to be removed. When you do an "apt-get remove --purge xserver-common" is a BIG depends for many things. It causes tons o stuff to be removed. Also those things secondarily force other things to be removed. Overall, I feel I am far better off doing the removal and purge, than I was with the hand fixing. Reason being, things that annoyed me for the last two years are now gone... replaced with stuff that works the way I knew it should. As it did on other machines, even they using the same Homedir off a server. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] For technology that is Strong, Better, Faster: Linux
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