On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:24:14PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:42:30PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:32:08PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:40:01PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments > > > > that won't mess up apt..? > > > > I want to remove all the crud from my system in order to be able to run > > backups that are fast, small, and simple. > > > > I installed gnome and kde at one point but I never use them. > > > > I have no intention of reinstalling them at a later date. > > okay, that makes way more sense ;) > > If you installed them using "gnome-desktop-environment" and kde's > equivalent, then just uninstall those meta-packages and see what else > it tries to take away. If it takes more than you want, then try taking > out the next level of packages down from the meta-packages (apt-cache > show gnome-desktop-environment | grep DEPENDS) and work your way > through it. I agree with the others here that aptitude is way more > suited to this kind of task. You can mark the meta package for removal > and then press 'g' to see the proposed actions. Then you can scroll > through the list of removals and mark '+' all the stuff you want to > keep. Very easy.
I've never managed to figure out how full-screen aptitude works .. :-/ I spent the last couple of hours removing packages and I still have a 3.0G system. I only use text-mode apps such as mutt, slrn, or vim these days so it's hard to figure out what's using up all that space. I did notice that /usr/share/ has over 700M of stuff in it and this looks suspicious. Anyway, thanks much for your suggestions/help and thanks also to all who bothered to comment. Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
