Getting frustrated with Ubuntu....

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:19:38PM +0000, Sam Tygier wrote:
>Lee H. wrote:
>>On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:55:15 +0000, you wrote: 
>>>how did you install gnome? it looks like you installed the
>>>ubunut-desktop package. this is a metapackage. it just make sure that
>>>a list of packages get installed, in this case all the default ubunut
>>>applications and gnome.  if you remove ubuntu desktop then you can
>>>remove things like firefox.
>>Er...ummm....:  sudo apt-get install gnome Is there such a thing as:
>>sudo apt-get uninstall gnome  ??    :)
>
>"gnome" is another meta package like ubuntu desktop, which depends on a
>few more meta and real packages including gnome-office (which get you
>abiword and gnumeric) and gnome-desktop-environment.
>
>gnome-desktop-environment is yet another metapackage.
>
>gnome-core seems to be the metapackage that you want. you'll get the
>core of gnome, nautilus, gedit, and eog, but thats about all.
>
>the trouble you have is now how to get rid of everything else.
>
>one trick is to remove something that they all depend on. try removing
>libgtk2.0-0. then installing gnome-core.

A better trick is to use `debfoster`. Install it, run it like this:

 % sudo debfoster -qmn

The remove the offending package:

 % sudo debfoster gnome-
 
You'll be asked about every package that `gnome` depends on that isn't
needed by any other package.

If you feel lucky you can do:

 % sudo debfoster -f gnome-

It'll do the same, but without asking any questions... (don't come
crying to me if you FUBAR your system though)

/M

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