On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:48:27PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote:
> I have totally lost patience with the numerous problems running X,
> though I have set it up numerous times in the past. I installed X
> through tasksel, so it installed EVERYTHING. Can I reverse that? I
> want to totally start again. Maybe from the source like I always did
> in the past.
what i wound up doing, eventually, was a wipe and clean
reinstall.
i did check out the dependency thing, and did
apt-get --purge remove xfree86-common
and still hadta go thru the dependency thing by hand,
which is dangerous; some of the things that look like they're
X-relevant only, are actually used in other (non-X) functions,
so exercise caution and watch for the "but this-and-that
depend on the widget you're trying to zap" messages...
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precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
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