Removing gnome-desktop question

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Jan 23, 2008 4:03 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at 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 :-)
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Kristian Erik Hermansen
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