On Jan 23, 2008 4:03 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: > We have someone with a laptop dual booting XP and Kubuntu. In order > to work the Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Training course we used adept to > install gnome-desktop. That was a mistake with nasty consequences. > We should have installed ubuntu-desktop. If we use adept to remove > gnome-desktop, it does not remove the dependencies which were loaded > to support it. If we use adept to search for all gnome elements and > mark all for removal, it would remove elements used/needed by KDE. Would it be a problem to have the old libs lying around from gnome-desktop? If you just remove it, and install ubuntu-desktop. then many of the dependencies will be the same... > Looking at some man pages, I am thinking "sudo apt-get remove > gnome-desktop autoremove" (or some variation) might work but am > reluctant to just try it. Anyone know for sure? You can use aptitude's --simulate option to play around with various scenarios if you like :-) -- Kristian Erik Hermansen "Know something about everything and everything about something." --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss