On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:44 pm, Marius Amado Alves wrote: > But I suspect my system is in a mess now from trying all sorts of > source.list entries and apt-get installs that totally or partially > failed (gnome, kde, cups-client...) Do I suspect right or can I trust > apt-get to have done the right thing?
apt-get remove tends to leave some configuration files lying around - if you look at a listing from dpkg -l, all the packages with a status of "rc" are removed, but with configuration files left installed. You can clean those up with "dpkg -P [package name]". > I think not because new installs always look for gnome and fallback to > Dialog. How do I clean up? dpkg-reconfigure debconf > Next I'd like to have OpenOffice. Any advice? I didn't see in this thread if you were running stable, testing, or unstable. If you are running testing or unstable, just use "apt-get install openoffice.org". If you are using stable, see Debian Backports (www.backports.org) for a source for the OpenOffice.org backports to stable (Latest News, 2003/12/17). Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
