On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Dom wrote: > On 11/08/13 03:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original > >>> question. > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Still an unhelpful question, esp when one knows the true meaning of > >> SNAFU > >> > >>> have resulted in Gnome being install, too. More or less. So I > >>> just did as root in /root a 'dpkg --download,' and then an > >>> '--unpack' thinking that would uncompress the .deb file in /root > >>> from which I would get the single svg file I needed, and then just > >>> delete everything else. Simple. Right? Wrong. Now, I'm stuck > >>> with about 4.5 megs of Gnome data, icons, > >> > >> AFAIU, a .deb file is just an 'ar' archive. > >> > >> As to how to recover after an unintentional unpack, ... dunno. > >> Hopefully someone on this list knows now that the subject explains > >> your predicament. > > > > Fortunately --unpack just "installed" files to their appropriate > > directories, but didn't "trigger" or configure anything. Not all > > that up on dpkg. Have always used apt-get. > > > > If I don't hear anything bad to the contrary in the next day or so, > > I'm just going to use "--purge" to remove the package after creating > > a copy of the file I need in a safe directory, then copy the copy > > back after the purging. Hopefully, it will work. > > Good luck with that, it sounds like it will work. > > Alternatively you can get a list of the files contained in the .deb > file using "dpkg -c debfile". With a little bit of wrangling that > will give you a list of files and directories to delete - although > you should only delete directories if they are empty.
I did that. Quite a long list. Too long (and too much trouble) to manually delete the files and/or directories. Even thought of building a script that used the list to automate it. But one little mistake and my system could be trashed. Safer to just use --purge. Thanks for your advice. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130811091600.1574e...@debian7.boseck208.net
