Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)
Hello, I don't suppose you would be so kind as to outline the steps you took? I really don't hate gnome or anything (prefer it to kde) and might want to put it back sometime... you sound like you have some experience at this... thanks! I just waded through the dselect package list, hitting - on all of the gnome-* packages. Other times, I would hit - on something like libgnorbit0 or libgnorba27 and then it would list all of the dependencies, and I would hit - on all of them. Then of course, when hitting return in delsect on the remove unwanted software those packages were actually removed from my system. I actually mapped out all of the dependencies on paper once, while trying to get newer gnome stuff up and running. When I tried (several times) to get things back, I was installing from my win95/vfat partition using newer files I downloaded, using the dpkg -i option, then when everything was there, using the dpkg --configure --pending command. I'm get over my head when trying to get (newer) enlightenment-conf, which needs freetype2 and libc6 newer than what I can find :( I am not quite up to speed on the glibc ties to lib6c yet. In any case, the procedures above got rid of most, if not all, of the gnome related stuff. Hope this helps, John __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)
Hello, What the heck is the big deal about gnome anyway? I have only seen the gnome that comes on the Debian 2.1 CD, I have not seen later versions. I believe gnome is in its infancy stage at present. From what I have read about it on the web, the big deal appears to be that a full set of applications will be delivered that supply the general computing needs of the public. And of course these will be provided FREE OF CHARGE! It's underlying architecture is somewhat brand new, but I am very impressed with the goals and the technical accomplishments of it so far. I have been trying to get binaries of new(er) gnome pieces running on my (slink and 2.0.36) system, but have not yet. I am not sure I love the gtk widget set (yet) but I have not played around with development with it. As far as your other question, I have removed and reinstalled gnome MANY times on my system with no illness to my system. John (In no way connected to the gnome project) __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)
tf wrote: [snip] What the heck is the big deal about gnome anyway? Was this flame-bait really necessary? If you don't like it, don't use it. Either way, don't make a big deal about it. -- Ed C.
Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)
tf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tf Hey guys, I'm going to get rid of gnome by dpkg -purging all four tf of the task-gnome-* debs that I installed. That's not going to get rid of the GNOME stuff. Those packages just depend on lots of other packages; you need to actually go off and remove those packages too (generally gnome-*) to really purge GNOME. tf I also stumbled on the fact that, for some reason, apt-get install mc tf also gets rid of them. unless one of you guys yells at me, this is tf probably the method that I will use, as I want some of the pre-gnome tf functionality of mc. Well, mc conflicts with gmc, and I believe task-gnome-desktop depends on that. So that will cause the task-gnome-desktop package -- but not anything else it depends on, like for example gnome-panel -- to be removed. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell
Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/17/99 at 09:37 AM, David Z. Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That's not going to get rid of the GNOME stuff. Those packages just depend on lots of other packages; you need to actually go off and remove those packages too (generally gnome-*) to really purge GNOME. There are some libs put in place for some of the other packages, too, which are a tad harder to trace down. I used dselect to pull them all out. Can't recall though, what I searched with (perhaps gnom). Look carefully under the lib sections of dselect's listing. Kenward -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
