On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original > > question. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Still an unhelpful question, esp when one knows the true meaning of > SNAFU > > > have resulted in Gnome being install, too. More or less. So I > > just did as root in /root a 'dpkg --download,' and then an > > '--unpack' thinking that would uncompress the .deb file in /root > > from which I would get the single svg file I needed, and then just > > delete everything else. Simple. Right? Wrong. Now, I'm stuck with > > about 4.5 megs of Gnome data, icons, > > AFAIU, a .deb file is just an 'ar' archive. > > As to how to recover after an unintentional unpack, ... dunno. > Hopefully someone on this list knows now that the subject explains > your predicament.
Fortunately --unpack just "installed" files to their appropriate directories, but didn't "trigger" or configure anything. Not all that up on dpkg. Have always used apt-get. If I don't hear anything bad to the contrary in the next day or so, I'm just going to use "--purge" to remove the package after creating a copy of the file I need in a safe directory, then copy the copy back after the purging. Hopefully, it will work. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130810194301.6ce2c...@debian7.boseck208.net
