On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> Well, for some stupid reason, I decided to give the Gnome packages from Helix > a try. After re-starting X-Windows, I noticed that my Eterms don't have > scrollbars and scroll-arrows. My first assumption is that it's related to > Helix's version of the variou s imlib packages. Now though, I can't remove them, at least without removing a bunch of other packages that depend on them. > > I've tried different "--ignore-depends=???" options, "--force", etc with no > luck. I'm sure there is a way to force the removal of *just* the items I > specify, isn't there ?? If so, could someone explain ?? > > Thanks > Hall > > apt-get --purge remove \*helix\* follow the prompts... it may remove more thna you bargained for so maybe doing this without --purge may be a better choice.. -walter
