-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kent West wrote: > I got bit the other day by unstable's xserver-xorg bug, and now I > can't seem to recover from it. I've now got things so completely > horked that I think it's best just to purge all of X11 from this > box and do a clean install of X (not of Debian itself, just of > the X Window System bits). > > Problem is, nothing I do will completely purge it. aptitude > (command-line and menu) fight me. I keep telling it to purge all > of the X11 system and it keeps saying that'll break things so > let's update things instead. NO!!! I want to PURGE the thing!!!
That's your problem. aptitude sucks. [snip] > Okay, my question. How do I _completely_ purge X11 so that I can > do a completely clean reinstall (that generates xorg.conf, etc)? Try apt-get. I'd start with: # apt-get --purge remove libx11-6 x11-common libxau6 There will need to be multiple iterations of "COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l" to grep for any remaining files. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE7b4TS9HxQb37XmcRAqNbAKCk+hkkM5cIaAfV8gFOlOGZ9Q7sTgCfSgFc odJkdq6s52mT6ek9DCjA/nA= =C6Iy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
