On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 17:53:47 +1000, jupiter DOT hce AT gmail DOT com wrote: > Thanks Florian and Andrei. The installation of OpenOffice works indeed > after installing the second CD. > > > With aptitude you can do searches like this: > > > > aptitude search '~i(~sgames|~Ggame)' > > > > This will list all installed (~i) packages which belong to the "games" > > section (~sgames) or (|) which have the string "game" in one of their > > debtags (~Ggame). > > > > You can uninstall all these packages with one fell blow by replacing > > "search" with "remove" in the command above. If you want to have a bit > > more control over what is going on then you can use aptitude in > > interactive mode, look at "Installed Packages > games" and decide > > yourself which ones you want to remove. > > I've also tried to run aptitude search '~i(~sgames|~Ggame)' and got > following list: > i A gnome-about - The GNOME about box > i A gnome-applets - Various applets for GNOME 2 panel - > binary > i A gnome-games - games for the GNOME desktop > i A gnome-games-data - data files for the GNOME games > i A wodim - command line CD/DVD writing tool > i A xbase-clients - miscellaneous X clients > > I guess the next command I should run to remove all games are following. > Are they correct? > > aptitude purge $(gnome-about) > aptitude purge $(gnome-applets) > aptitude purge $(gnome-games) > aptitude purge $(gnome-games-data) > aptitude purge $(wodim) > aptitude purge $(xbase-clients)
Wodim is Debian's version of cdrecord, so don't remove it if you plan to burn CDs or DVDs at some point. xbase-clients is necessary to run X normally. Gnome-applets has some quite "serious" applications; see for yourself with "apt-cache show gnome-applets" and decide if you want to keep it. (You seem to have run into a bug of aptitude's search mechanism: It looks like it can return false positives with the "~Ggame" pattern for packages which do not have any debtags. This is fixed in Sid as far as I can tell.) That leaves gnome-about (~ 0.5 MB), gnome-games (~ 2 MB) and gnome-games-data (~ 20 MB). You can purge them to free some disk space. You can use whatever package manager you like best to do this; it does not have to be aptitude. (I like aptitude very much, but you have to be prepared to read the documentation in package aptitude-doc-en, otherwise some of its advanced dependency-handling features will confuse you.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]