Mac wrote: <snip> > ...Aptitude seems to keep track of > dependencies better than synaptic, so you can <sudo aptitude remove > 'packagename'>, and, better yet, when things get bad <sudo aptitude > purge 'packagename'>, ...
By 'packagename' I mean, of course, the name that you find listed in, say, synaptic (e.g. 'realplay' or 'mozilla-thunderbird'). In fact I tend to search for packages with the synaptic 'Search' feature, and then install from a terminal with aptitude. Does anyone use the aptitude GUI? (Perhaps I should say "GUI", as it's more a 'sort-of' GUI - the one that starts when you just do 'aptitude' in a terminal. Quite powerful, but old-fashioned and clunky.) Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
