>> >> Any suggestions for how to fix this mess? At the moment, the best >> thing I can think of would be to reinstall, with tasksel/kde-desktop. >> I'd prefer something a little less drastic. > > If you have the metapackages gnome, or gnome-desktop-environment, > installed, then mark these for removal. If neither of these are > installed, then uninstall nautilus, which will uninstall most of gnome. > > Uninstalling the metapackages gnome, and/or gnome-desktop-environment, > will remove most of gnome. I would suggest aptitude, which will > automatically remove dependent packages as well (it gives a thorough > cleaning when it's used to uninstall stuff). > > Then, simply install the metapackage "kde" (or, if you want something > more customizable, perhaps the two smaller metapackages kdebase, and > kde-core). Again, I recommend aptitude.
I agree, use the metapackages. They should get you out of trouble in aptitude (or even just apt-get). In aptitude do a search for ^kde$ to get straight to the metapackage, and similarly for gnome. (In case you don't know, ^ is for start of line and $ is end of line, so you don't have to 'n' your way through hundreds of packages containing the letters 'kde') HTH -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
