Re: Remove gnome-games
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:40:56PM +, Manon Metten wrote: I'll give it a try. If it doesn't work, I can always reinstall gnome-desktop-environment (I guess). aptitude might want to remove all (most?) gnome packages. Before you apply the changes (g) just go through the list and mark manually installed (m) those packages you want to keep. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Remove gnome-games
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/07 11:45, Manon Metten wrote: Hi, As I never play games, I've removed most of them with aptitude. But some I just can't remove: aptitude can't find them. I guess they are part of gnome-games (games like: nibbles, robots, ataxx etc.) or something. However, when I tried to remove gnome-games, aptitude warned me that gnome depends on gnome games and will be broken. I also never use gnome; i stick with kde. Can I safely remove gnome-games, without messing up my system? Running Etch: Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux When you say gnome, do you mean the package named gnome? If so, you should be all right. Unless aptitude does something stupid. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGVxSOS9HxQb37XmcRAtPTAKDbFRPVPCPdQA1qs8KjM2oG5JFyXwCgvoE0 zZeX4ZZ/EH5Ysq2CvbnmSgo= =ugqS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remove gnome-games
Hi, As I never play games, I've removed most of them with aptitude. But some I just can't remove: aptitude can't find them. I guess they are part of gnome-games (games like: nibbles, robots, ataxx etc.) or something. However, when I tried to remove gnome-games, aptitude warned me that gnome depends on gnome games and will be broken. I also never use gnome; i stick with kde. Can I safely remove gnome-games, without messing up my system? Running Etch: Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Greetings, Manon.
Re: Remove gnome-games
Hi Ron, On 5/25/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you say gnome, do you mean the package named gnome? If so, you should be all right. Unless aptitude does something stupid. Sorry for my inaccurate description. Here's aptitude's warning: gnome-games will be removed. The following packages depend on gnome-games and will be broken by its removal: *gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-games (= 1:2.14.3) What happens when gnome-desktop-environment will be broken. I never use it anyway. But IIRC I've read that some kde apps use some gnome stuff. So I don't know if I can safely remove gnome-games. I rather have gnome-desktop-environment removed completely, but I don't know what part or apps of kde will be broken then. Thanks, Manon.
Re: Remove gnome-games
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manon Metten wrote: Hi Ron, On 5/25/07, *Ron Johnson* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you say gnome, do you mean the package named gnome? If so, you should be all right. Unless aptitude does something stupid. Sorry for my inaccurate description. Here's aptitude's warning: gnome-games will be removed. The following packages depend on gnome-games and will be broken by its removal: *gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-games (= 1: 2.14.3) What happens when gnome-desktop-environment will be broken. I never use it anyway. But IIRC I've read that some kde apps use some gnome stuff. So I don't know if I can safely remove gnome-games. I rather have gnome-desktop-environment removed completely, but I don't know what part or apps of kde will be broken then. Thanks, Manon. Please don't use html mail The above mentioned packages are both meta-packages, so removing them will not actually remove any packages on your system. Meta-packages are just dummy packages with a list of dependencies to make fetching (or updating) a bunch of packages easier. Joe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGVx+UiXBCVWpc5J4RAo6MAJoD0j1kgVkNfbbtwbM8i8XIQy4fygCgswCw MWiz+LCw6uyMggDD2scnkAY= =v4/5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remove gnome-games
On 05/25/2007 12:14 PM, Manon Metten wrote: [...] I rather have gnome-desktop-environment removed completely, but I don't know what part or apps of kde will be broken then. Thanks, Manon. Hi Manon. You probably can remove gnome-desktop-environment safely using aptitude. Those individual Gnome programs that KDE depends upon will remain while most of the others will be removed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remove gnome-games
Hi Mumia, On 5/25/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I rather have gnome-desktop-environment removed completely, but I don't know what part or apps of kde will be broken then. You probably can remove gnome-desktop-environment safely using aptitude. Those individual Gnome programs that KDE depends upon will remain while most of the others will be removed. I'll give it a try. If it doesn't work, I can always reinstall gnome-desktop-environment (I guess). Thank you all.
Re: Remove gnome-games
What happens when gnome-desktop-environment will be broken. I never use it anyway. But IIRC I've read that some kde apps use some gnome stuff. So I don't know if I can safely remove gnome-games. I rather have gnome-desktop-environment removed completely, but I don't know what part or apps of kde will be broken then. I've switched between gnome, kde, and xfce without difficulty. If you've been using aptitude consistently, it should not be a problem. I would just go for it, and then if certain kde apps are also removed, simply reinstall them (I doubt this would happen, though.) If you've been mostly using kde, but relying on certain gnome applications (IE, totem), this would be your chance to change them to KDE applications to make your system more purely KDE (IE, from totem to kaffeine, from synaptic to adept, from gdm to kdm, etc). KDE uses qt based applications, whereas gnome uses gtk based applications. In summary, KDE does not rely on gnome-desktop-environment; so, just go for it. Good luck, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
