Chris Bannister wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:23:27AM +0100, andy wrote:
Dear all
As a Debian n00b I enthusiastically gorged myself on the wonders and
ease of apt-get. Now, having recovered from my initial over-indulgence,
like one considers one's post-festive waistline, I am wanting to figure
out a way to rid myself of packages that I don't use, orphan files, and
other random bits of software detritus.
I am running an Etch -> Lenny, and have deborphan installed. I am very
wary of just launching into it though because it seemed to call up a lot
of files and I don't - obviously - want to break anything.
Can someone point me in the direction of some guides/pointers that are
current and reliable, or even share some personal experiences of
trimming down the "fat".
Many thanks for any help.
apt-get --purge remove gnome
apt-get --purge remove kde
apt-get install fvwm
Good idea, but it wont work. Both 'gnome' and 'kde' are meta-packages.
All they do is depend on a bunch of other packages which would not be
removed by the above commands. Aptitude would remove the dependancies
when removing the meta-packages IF gnome and kde were installed by
aptitude. Since th OP says that he is using apt-get, however, this will
not work.
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Marc Shapiro
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