Re: Package removal dependencies

2011-08-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/09/11 00:00, Bruno Martins wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Scott Ferguson mailto:prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello mate. Thanks for your quick response. So, to avoid this dependency "problems" in the future, I should make a clean installation of Debian, without

Re: Package removal dependencies

2011-08-31 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:02:39 +0100, Bruno Martins wrote: > Is there any way to avoid this? Imagine that I simply want to remove the > evolution package. (...) This topic comes from time to time :-) http://www.google.es/search?q=Form+wizard&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&c

Re: Package removal dependencies

2011-08-31 Thread Bruno Martins
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Scott Ferguson < prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31/08/11 21:02, Bruno Martins wrote: > >> Hello guys. >> >> Is there any way to avoid this? Imagine that I simply want to remove the >> evolution package. >> >> root@sputnik:/home/joe# apt-get remove ev

Re: Package removal dependencies

2011-08-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/08/11 21:02, Bruno Martins wrote: Hello guys. Is there any way to avoid this? Imagine that I simply want to remove the evolution package. root@sputnik:/home/joe# apt-get remove evolution Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree�� Reading state information... Done The fol

Re: package removal

2004-04-08 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Bob Proulx wrote: > Sebastiaan wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Chris Metzler wrote: > > > For something to be removed, you have to answer "y" to the question > > > of whether you want them to be. Presumably, you did. > > > > > true, and I was intending to reinstall it afte

Re: package removal

2004-04-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Sebastiaan wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Chris Metzler wrote: > > For something to be removed, you have to answer "y" to the question > > of whether you want them to be. Presumably, you did. > > > true, and I was intending to reinstall it after the upgrade was complete. > > Problem is: apt doesn't

Re: package removal

2004-04-07 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:28:18 +0200 (METDST) > Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > with the testing dist-upgrade I did last week, some packages were > > removed. Usually I trust apt and Debian not to remove application > > packages, but this

Re: package removal

2004-04-07 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:28:18AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > > with the testing dist-upgrade I did last week, some packages were removed. > > Usually I trust apt and Debian not to remove application packages, but > > this time it removed xv. > > Don'

Re: package removal

2004-04-07 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:28:18 +0200 (METDST) Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > with the testing dist-upgrade I did last week, some packages were > removed. Usually I trust apt and Debian not to remove application > packages, but this time it removed xv. For something to be removed, you have

Re: package removal

2004-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:28:18AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > with the testing dist-upgrade I did last week, some packages were removed. > Usually I trust apt and Debian not to remove application packages, but > this time it removed xv. Don't ever, ever run dist-upgrade without looking over the li

Re: package removal

2001-04-02 Thread Mathias
> need command for removing a package dpkg --purge

Re: package removal

2001-04-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:19:55PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > yes, how did you guess? > > it removes package but not its config files (I guess rationale is that > if you'd reinstall packages you have your original config, in other > words: package removal is easily reversible while config

Re: package removal

2001-04-01 Thread John Hasler
paul taylor writes: > apt-get remove {package} is this the syntax for removal? That's what the man page says, alright. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: package removal

2001-04-01 Thread Erik Steffl
paul taylor wrote: > > need command for removing a package > > apt-get remove {package} is this the syntax for removal?? yes, how did you guess? it removes package but not its config files (I guess rationale is that if you'd reinstall packages you have your original config, in other words: