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Old 03-11-2004, 05:32 PM   #1
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An easy way to remove large program groups?

I accidentally installed KDE (along with X, GNOME, etc.) onto my text server. Whoops. Now, I want to easily remove all of them (and all the programs that depend on them) using apt. I haven't been able to find a way to do this effectively. Anyone have any ideas?
 
Old 03-11-2004, 06:14 PM   #2
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dselect is what you are looking for. Enjoy
 
Old 03-11-2004, 09:42 PM   #3
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I despise dselect. Try aptitude, it's more recent.
 
Old 03-14-2004, 01:25 PM   #4
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Thanks. The funniest thing was with aptitude, I tried to remove KDE, and guess what, it installed more kde packages! Hooray!
 
Old 03-14-2004, 08:31 PM   #5
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Synaptic?
http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/
 
Old 03-14-2004, 09:12 PM   #6
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If you don't want anything to do with X Windows, could you run tasksel and remove the entry related to X?
 
Old 03-15-2004, 08:17 AM   #7
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Try deborphan and debfoster.
One of those should meet your needs and some.

I despise those that despise dselect.
 
  


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