accidental inclusion of kubuntu packages
Senectus .
senectus at gmail.com
Mon Feb 21 01:52:50 UTC 2005
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:38:40 -0500, volvoguy <volvoguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> I had a crusty old machine that I was installing Ubuntu on (with the
> Array 4 cd I think) and was having some xserver and gnome issues. It
> looked like there were a handful of packages that simply didn't get
> installed. Unfortunately I'm more familiar with synaptic than the
> command line tools, and wasn't aware of the kubuntu packages in
> universe now and I did a:
>
> sudo apt-get install ubuntu*
>
> Hoping to just get the "ubuntu-base", "ubuntu-desktop", etc. Now, I
> don't mind adding a few KDE/QT apps to the desktop, but with my
> limited space on the machine I probably don't need all of
> "kubuntu-base" and "kubuntu-desktop" installed. Now that those two
> meta-packages have been installed and pulled in a bazillion packages,
> what's the best way to remove them? I think the "remove" and "remove
> completely" options in synaptic will just deselect them. Any thoughts?
> Do I manually need to go through the list of dependencies for those
> meta-packages to figure out what to get rid of?
>
I've just noticed that my hoary laptop now wants install :
kdelibs-bin
kdelibs-data
kdelibs4
These appear to be a part of the default install.. because i didn't
put them in there..
--
Ubuntu Warty 4.10 (desktop)
and Hoary 5.04 (Laptop) (kernel 2.6.10-19 686)
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