On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:21:43PM +0000, s. keeling wrote: > I blew away CUPS last night, not noticing it was taking Gnome with > it. In the past, I've mixed "aptitude remove" with "dpkg -r", then > cleaning up after the result. > > What's the right way with aptitude? How do I not blow away > $SOMEWANTEDPACKAGE correctly? > > I'm running sarge. > I always use aptitude in the interactive mode; you press "g" and it shows a list of packages to be installed or removed, and you can change the list.
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