On 4 May 2001, Steve Gran wrote: > Be careful removing things, and if you're not sure and it's not causing a conflict, it may be asiest to leave it alone.
"dpkg --purge" will not purge a package that is depended on by other packages - you may inadvertently get rid of a recommended or suggested package you didn't realize you wanted though. > If you're getting particular file conflicts, and you don't know what package that file comes from, you can go to the debian website, and do a search on the packages page - the second search engine on the page is for doing exactly that. And if the package is installed... dpkg -S <path> - Bruce
