Removing Stuff

[Richard A Downing FBCS CITP]

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> Richard A Downing FBCS CITP a écrit :
>> I want to remove some packages, e.g Ekiga.  However, Synaptic says that
>> if I do that it's got to remove ubuntu-desktop, and I don't want that.
>>
>> So how do I get rid of stuff from ubuntu's selection of applications?
>>
>> R.
>>
>>
> I believe ubuntu-desktop is just a metapackages containing the list of
> all default ubuntu set of package. Removing it won't do anything to your
> desktop. go for it :)

Thank you.  You were right!  (screen dissolves....  :-)

Richard.