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[Romeyn Prescott]

At 12:53 AM +0100 12/4/04, Petri Pennanen scribbled:
>On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 18:41 -0500, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
>>  Well, I've been messing around...
>>
>>  I eventually used apt-get to remove libxmuu1.  That carved out about
>>  90 megs of "stuff".  I then reinstalled it, but that didn't do much.
>>  I then installed gdm, but it wouldn't load all the way.  (But it got
>>  farther than before I started all of this...)
>>
>>  So I just typed 'apt-get install gnome'...and I fear that was a
>>  mistake, as it's installing all sorts of CRAP like abiword.
>>
>>  Is there something I can type that will revert packages back to the
>>  way they were post-install without actually re-installing?
>
>To make sure you have the packages that are included in the default
>install simply run:
>	sudo apt-get install ubuntu-base ubuntu-desktop
>
>I'm not aware of any automatic way to remove all the extra packages.


Well, groovy.  I'm back in business!  Thanks!!

...ROMeyn
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