Greg Folkert on 14/07/05 20:29, wrote:
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.
OK, I'm brave, I can do that but it would be good to hear other people's
points of view first though........ :)
Due to time constraints and my inability to fix gconf, I am living with
the gnome desktop without a window manager. I find it only mildly
debilitating and due to the same time constraints, I would rather avoid
doing anything that will take hours of work.
I am thinking of waiting until sid matures a bit and then doing a whole
system upgrade.
Adam
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