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and subject line Re: Bug#624478: xboard: You MUST have a chess on your system
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regarding xboard: You MUST have a chess on your system
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Package: xboard
Version: 4.5.1-1
Severity: normal
Try as I may I can't get rid of chess on my system.
Removing gnuchess INSTALLS xboard.
Removing xboard INSTALLS gnuchess.
apt-get purge should REMOVE, not INSTALL your software
bandsman:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get purge hoichess fairymax xboard
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gnuchess gnuchess-book
The following packages will be REMOVED:
fairymax* hoichess* xboard*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gnuchess gnuchess-book
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 3 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,679 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,176 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable/main gnuchess amd64 5.07-7 [88.7
kB]
Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable/main gnuchess-book all 1.01-2
[2,591 kB]
Fetched 2,679 kB in 0s (7,028 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 182767 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing fairymax ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Selecting previously deselected package gnuchess.
(Reading database ... 182756 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gnuchess (from .../gnuchess_5.07-7_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up gnuchess (5.07-7) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
(Reading database ... 182766 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing hoichess ...
Removing xboard ...
Purging configuration files for xboard ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 2 removed doc-base files...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Selecting previously deselected package gnuchess-book.
(Reading database ... 182350 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gnuchess-book (from .../gnuchess-book_1.01-2_all.deb) ...
Setting up gnuchess-book (1.01-2) ...
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 4 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
Total disk space freed by localepurge: 4 KiB
bandsman:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get purge gnuchess gnuchess-book
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
fairymax hoichess xboard
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnuchess* gnuchess-book*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fairymax hoichess xboard
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 2 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,210 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,176 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 182354 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gnuchess-book ...
Selecting previously deselected package hoichess.
(Reading database ... 182350 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking hoichess (from .../hoichess_0.10.3-5_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up hoichess (0.10.3-5) ...
(Reading database ... 182358 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gnuchess ...
Purging configuration files for gnuchess ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Selecting previously deselected package xboard.
(Reading database ... 182348 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xboard (from .../xboard_4.5.1-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package fairymax.
Unpacking fairymax (from .../fairymax_4.8q-2_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 2 added doc-base files...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up xboard (4.5.1-1) ...
Setting up fairymax (4.8q-2) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB
bandsman:/var/cache/apt/archives#
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xboard depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.0.2 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.11.2-13 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libice6 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.9-2 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.9-1 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.1.1-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
Versions of packages xboard recommends:
ii fairymax 4.8q-2 xboard compatible chess and chess-
ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.3 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.3 75 dpi fonts for X
Versions of packages xboard suggests:
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-em 2.30.2-1 The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 269-1 X terminal emulator
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi Nigel,
Nigel Horne <[email protected]> writes:
> On 28 Apr 2011, at 19:47, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>
> Try as I may I can't get rid of chess on my system.
>
> Removing gnuchess INSTALLS xboard.
> Removing xboard INSTALLS gnuchess.
>
> apt-get purge should REMOVE, not INSTALL your software
>
> $ aptitude why xboard
> i gnome Depends gnome-games (>= 1:2.30)
> i A gnome-games Depends gnuchess | hoichess | bbchess | crafty | fruit
> i A gnuchess Suggests xboard | eboard
> $ aptitude why gnuchess
> i gnome Depends gnome-games (>= 1:2.30)
> i A gnome-games Depends gnuchess | hoichess | bbchess | crafty | fruit
>
> If you want to remove both xboard and gnuchess from your system, you'd
> have
> to purge gnome-games as well, and get rid of the gnome meta-package while
> you're at it.
>
> Could that restriction be lifted, please? I want to keep the other games, but
> want to remove chess.
This bug isn't related to xboard but to gnome-games. And I doubt
gnome-games maintainers want to solve it. See for example :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=167372
I'm closing this bug. Feel free to reopen it if you disagree.
Bests regards,
Vincent
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