Re: [SLUG] removing samba

2010-03-02 Thread meryl
> Hi, > I know I'm late for the party but I don't see anyone mentioning > aptitude's amazing "mark for auto remove" flag (set by pressing M). By > marking packages you know you don't care about with this flag you > automatically get them removed when nothing you care about depends on > them. > Also

Re: [SLUG] removing samba

2010-03-02 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I know I'm late for the party but I don't see anyone mentioning aptitude's amazing "mark for auto remove" flag (set by pressing M). By marking packages you know you don't care about with this flag you automatically get them removed when nothing you care about depends on them. Also to get this f

Re: [SLUG] removing samba

2010-02-18 Thread james
On Friday 19 February 2010 06:42:22 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > > From: "meryl" > > Sent: Friday, 19 February, 2010 8:11:53 AM > > > > I needed to do some file sharing recently and now that the task is > > finished so I want to remove the Samba service. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10. > > > > in Syn

Re: [SLUG] removing samba

2010-02-18 Thread meryl
Thank you Ken, Erik, James & Mike for your replies. You are a wealth of information! non-dependent Samba pkgs removed, restarted and I'm very happy! thanks again & cheers, Meryl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] removing samba

2010-02-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 08:11 +1100, meryl wrote: > I needed to do some file sharing recently and now that the task is > finished so I want to remove the Samba service. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10. ... > When I mark "samba" for removal no other files on this list are > marked. So is just marking "samba" fo

Re: [SLUG] removing samba

2010-02-18 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
meryl wrote: > I needed to do some file sharing recently and now that the task is > finished so I want to remove the Samba service. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10. > > in Synaptic > search: samba > > shows that the following items are installed; > >samba >samba-common >samba-common-bin >

Re: [SLUG] removing samba

2010-02-18 Thread James Gray
> - Original Message - > From: "meryl" > Sent: Friday, 19 February, 2010 8:11:53 AM > > I needed to do some file sharing recently and now that the task is > finished so I want to remove the Samba service. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10. > > in Synaptic > search: samba > > shows that the followin

Re: [SLUG] removing samba

2010-02-18 Thread Mike
If baffles me as to why it's so difficult to stop a service on boot in ubuntu but read this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1341947 I also don't see why it's been made hard to pull samba out, maybe someone more ubuntu friendly can explain how to remove the program it's self

[SLUG] removing samba

2010-02-18 Thread meryl
I needed to do some file sharing recently and now that the task is finished so I want to remove the Samba service. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10. in Synaptic > search: samba shows that the following items are installed; samba samba-common samba-common-bin smbclient libpam-smbpass libs