Lucid office trap

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:18 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 09/15/2011 03:58 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>>
>> No, this only removes the PPAs. Under simple conditions, usually one
>> can remove the installed packages himself/herself.
>
> So you figure that it's simple to remove the packages from:
> https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa
> ??
>
> Let's have a look:
> <https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa/+sourcepub/1626654/+listing-archive-extra>
>
> You figure it's 'simple' to remove all of those by hand? Or to go
> through each one to see if it was installed (by hand). Not to mention
> all of the OOo packages that the ppa removed in the process... Your
> advise (IMO) is both simplistic and wrong.


Actually, this is what I do under GNOME:

After removing a PPA,

1. I look at Synaptic's File->History, which also provides a Search
function, find the primary packages that were installed by this PPA,
uninstall them,

2. and then I run Computer Janitor (or sudo apt-get autoremove).


I have to remind that there is no "1 true way" that satisfies all
requirements (some of them being even contradictive), so your approach
may be suitable for much complex situations.



-- 
Ioannis Vranos

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