debian problems

[Alex Snow]

Yup I ended up just deselecting a lot of stuff.  the only stuff I really
selected was development and servers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikko Liukko" <mikko.liukko at dnainternet.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 3:24 AM
Subject: Re: debian problems


> Hi Alex
>
> Tasksel should not do that, but be carefull what you choose i.e. games
will
> install x, you could just leave everything unchecked and then add your
> desired packackes manually with apt-get install packagename.
> like apt-get install apache apt-get-install nano etc...
>
> Now if you have installed X Gnome etc then removing them is possible with
> following commands
> list installed packages dbkg -l
> see if x is installed dpkg -l | grep xfree
> use switch -s with apt-get to simulate what would be done.
> apt-get remove xlib* -s
> and if it shows that no vital packages are to be removed then run apt-get
> without -s
> apt-get remove xlib*
> and then
> apt-get remove xfont*
> apt-get remove xfree*
>
> I don't have at the moment a running debian installation so above came
from
> memory and i possibly fogot something.
> Removing x and its dependencies this way is dangerous but fairly efective.
> You could use package called aptitude.
>
> Cheers Mikko
>
> On Monday 23 June 2003 03:46, Alex Snow wrote:
> > This is confusing...
> > I went into tasksel and chose the stuff I wanted and didn't select
anything
> > I didn't like xfree86 or any of the languages.  but It still wanted to
> > download gnome, abiword, kde, just to name a few.
> > what I'm thinking is it's just downloading these but not installing them
or
> > something?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "White, Matt" <mattw at cotse.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 5:31 PM
> > Subject: Re: debian problems
> >
> > > TaskSel should help you here; you want to go in there and remove the
> > > packages you do not need.
> > >
> > > If you know the name of the particular package you want to get rid of,
> > > you can also do
> > >
> > > apt-get remove packagename
> > >
> > > Matt
> > >
> > > <quote who="Alex Snow">
> > >
> > > > It seems that debian decided to install *everything*. including all
the
> > > > language environments etc.  How do I get rid of this stuff? Sorry
for
> > > > the stupid questions;I'm new to this.
> > >
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