removing a package

[Clive Menzies]

On (06/02/07 10:28), John Dangler wrote:
> I was informed by the rosegarden dev group this morning that the
> rosegarden packages in the Ubuntu repositories are way out of date (in
> fact the original is more than 10 years old!).
> 
> I used apt-get remove --purge rosegarden to remove it so that I could go
> and get the latest source and build a .deb for Ubuntu to submit for the
> repo's...  The package is fairly large, but I got this on apt-get remove

May I suggest you look at using aptitude in interactive mode:

$ sudo aptitude

You may be able to understand better what dependency relationships exist
and it may give you more of a clue about the relative package sizes

Regards

Clive

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