Noob Question - Something like Windows system restore in Ubuntu

[Steve]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:00:39 +0100, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net>  
wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 16:12 +0100, Steve wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:49:22 +0100, David McNally  
>> <david3333333 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Fantastic! Thanks, Steve!
>> >
>> > One more question: Let's say that I still want to keep one KDE program
>> > (I'll
>> > use Amarok as an example). I just remove it from that command before I
>> > run
>> > it, right?
>> >
>> In theory, yes.
>> But things can get removed as dependencies of other programs.  But you  
>> can
>> always reinstall anything like that if it goes missing.
>
>   Wouldn't it just be simpler to un-install all and then re-install the
> desired app, which will then deal with the dependencies?


It probably would, yes.  I've obviously been lucky, on the few occasion  
I've done this, I've only had one occassion it has caused dependency  
problems.
-- 
Steve