"Christian T. Steigies" wrote: > Moin, auch Moin > apt-cache search or wajig search work quite nicely. Also dselect still sorts > packages according to sections, and I bet that gives you much more > information than a CD listing. You could also read the Packages file > directly, but I guess apt-cache search uses that as an input. And if you > insist on reading the files on the CD, find also works on CD-Roms. Will give aptitude / dselect etc. a try > > dkpg -r xdm > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of xdm > > x-window-system depends on xdm > > so I cant't remove it, but I think it should not be installed by > > default. > > Of course you can remove it, x-window-system is only a task which pulls in a > bunch of other packages, including xdm, because the "standard" user who > wants the x-windows-system also wants xdm. You are the non-standard user. > After installing the task, nobody stops you from removing the task and > individual packages which were pulled in by that task. Its just a convenient > thing to select one "package" and get X (or C development, or ...) going > instead of selecting an xserver, some fonts, a windowmanager and a terminal > emulator and maybe more manually. Its very easy to forget something and you > wonder why X is not working. Been there, done that, xterm was my favourite. That helps.
Thanks a lot Axel Schlicht -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]