I installed gedit through swaret and it had to install other stuff to make gedit work, but I dont really use gedit anymore so I took it off.......so how can I find out what other libraries and whatnot gedit uses?

I went to the gedit page and all it says it uses is gnome libraries, yeah I know that, but which ones specifically?

ldd <file>
Any doubts, man ldd

I hope you have not the idea to remove all libraries which are linked to gedit

you shuold keep your libraries so you dont have to go hunting for them in the future when you might need them again

In Mandrake, I think I would do something like that (I'm not at home at the moment):
1# rpm -q --requires gedit >gedit.needs
2# urpme gedit
3# urpmi_find_leaves | xargs rpm -q --provides >noone.needs
4# cat gedit.needs noone.needs | sort | uniq -d | xargs rpm -q --whatprovides | sort -u >un-needed-RPMs.list

1) finds what is required by gedit
2) removes gedit
3) finds what is not required by anything (including things that were formely required by gedit)
4) finds the resources that are both useless now, but needed by gedit (which is not there anymore), and the result is piped to the rpm command that will give what packages provide those useless resources.

Now you may find something equivalent to do with Slackware-specific tools. I don't know this distribution at all. Sorry if that completely beside the point...

Yves.

smokey% ldd gedit
ldd: ./gedit: No such file or directory

ldd /usr/bin/gedit

You'd need to reinstall gedit in order to use ldd on it.

Here's another possible solution, though it won't work if you've already removed the gedit package. Look in /var/log/packages. See which packages were installed at the same time as the gedit package. Since SWareT installed gedit, looked for dependencies, and installed the required packages, all of the files should have roughly the same timestamp.

worked like a charm....thanks