On Saturday 10 August 2013 18:08:53 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 10 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 06:56:56PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > <Nothing to do with subject> > > > > Could you please provide a meaningful subject relating to your post. > > This is the second try replying to your post. The first one failed to > send. Don't know why. > > I did. The original subject was "Oops! Dpkg SNAFU," but when I posted > it only "Oops!" showed up. Don't know why.
Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original question. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally got around to installing Pulseaudio-Equalizer on my 64-bit Wheezy, which by the way is NOT in the Wheezy repos or backports. However, was able to find a tar.gz file of it from the developer's site, IIRC. It's been months since I downloaded it. I've been busy. ;-) In any case, here's the "problem:" the equalizer needs multimedia-volume-control.svg. A search turned up it was part of the gnome-control-center-data package. Not having Gnome on this system, just a window manager--Openbox--installing the package would have resulted in Gnome being install, too. More or less. So I just did as root in /root a 'dpkg --download,' and then an '--unpack' thinking that would uncompress the .deb file in /root from which I would get the single svg file I needed, and then just delete everything else. Simple. Right? Wrong. Now, I'm stuck with about 4.5 megs of Gnome data, icons, and config files scattered all over the system that I want to get rid of before they cause any problems, if any. My plan is to copy the file I need to someplace safe, then 'dpkg --purge' the original package to clean the system of it, and copy the file back to where it needs to be. Sound okay? Any expected gotchas? Any better alternatives? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201308101813.20627.lisi.re...@gmail.com
