Re: removing X

2009-02-06 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/6 Francesco Pietra : > Does the likely presence of corrupted X files hinder a clean unistalling? If by "corrupted" you mean configuration files left behind (default action) you can add "--purge" on the end of your aptitude or apt-get command to also remove config files, nothing is left beh

Re: removing X

2009-02-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:19:07PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: > May I ask advice to remove completely X - without leaving broken > packages - from a multisocket server running on debian amd64 lenny, > kernel 2.6.26? > > Is it enough to purge remove the packages "xorg" and "xbase-clients"? If

Re: removing X

2009-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/05/2009 09:19 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi: May I ask advice to remove completely X - without leaving broken packages - from a multisocket server running on debian amd64 lenny, kernel 2.6.26? Is it enough to purge remove the packages "xorg" and "xbase-clients"? And maybe a few others

removing X

2009-02-05 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi: May I ask advice to remove completely X - without leaving broken packages - from a multisocket server running on debian amd64 lenny, kernel 2.6.26? Is it enough to purge remove the packages "xorg" and "xbase-clients"? Does the likely presence of corrupted X files hinder a clean unistalling?

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade prefers removing x-window-system-core to upgrading it

2004-04-21 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:05:33 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Why does "apt-get dist-upgrade" prefer removing x-window-system-core to > upgrading it? Looks like you're doing a dist-upgrade to testing... I generally don't do that, testing often has broken d

apt-get dist-upgrade prefers removing x-window-system-core to upgrading it

2004-04-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Why does "apt-get dist-upgrade" prefer removing x-window-system-core to upgrading it? ay:~> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: x-window-system-core xlibmesa3