On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > 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 > > The command you were looking for was 'dpkg-deb -x foo.deb foo-dir'.
Wish I had know about that a couple days ago. Would have saved a lot of time and reading and rereading. > > > > > delete everything else. Simple. Right? Wrong. Now, I'm stuck > > > > with about 4.5 megs of Gnome data, icons, > > > > [snip] > > > 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. > > That is the correct thing to do. The dpkg package manager knows the > state of the installation. Simply tell it to purge the package. > Simple! No need to look any further. > > dpkg --purge foo Thanks for the info and the recommendations. 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/20130811191907.2b3a1...@debian7.boseck208.net
