Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-30 20:58 +0200, JoeHill wrote: > > > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> > >> Remove the gnome metapackage. Make sure to mark everything it depends > >> on and which you want to keep as "manually installed". > > > > Do you mean in Synaptic? I can't see any way to do what you suggest... > > I don't know anything about Synaptic (never used it), but there are > "apt-mark unmarkauto <packages>" and "aptitude unmarkauto <packages>" > which you can use at the commandline.
Okay, so now I've removed the gnome metapackage, and aptitude keeps wanting to remove all of gnome. I looked at the explanations for unmarkauto, but I'm not sure how I would use that for all of the gnome packages. I mean, not all of them even have the word gnome in them, so what kind of wildcard argument could I use? Is there somewhere I could look for examples of how to use this command? Many thanks for any tips. -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org