On Jan 23, 2008 4:03 PM, Dazed_75 <
lthielster@gmail.com> 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."
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