XFCE4 desktop

[Matt Price]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 05:01:44PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:51:12 +0200
> Joan Tur <joantur at cancullet.org> wrote:
> 
> > Es Dimarts, 20 de Juny de 2006 21:10, en Frank McCormick va escriure:
> > | 	I installed the XFCE4 desktop a few months back and now would like to
> > | remove it. Problem is I don't know which meta package to remove. Synaptic
> > | says the Xubuntu package is not installed, but I'm almost positive thats
> > | how I installed it in the first place. I never use it, and find it a waste
> > | of space.
> > You installed xubuntu-desktop metapackage to have xfce in your system, but 
> > uninstalling that package doesn't uninstall xfce, but only the metapackage.
> > 
> > I'd look for *xfce* packages and remove them.
> > 
> > Hope it helps  ;)
> 
> 
>    Looks like that's what I'll do. Installing and removing xubuntu-desktop would result in losing a bunch of software I use, such as Abiword. 

notquite.  removing xubuntu-desktop would just removethe metapackage -- all
the other stuff would stay behind.  so do as Frank says...  Xubuntu uses a
different verison of abiword, with all the gnome dependencies excised out.
That's why it wants to change the abiword version.

matt

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