[Wolves] feck.

[Aquarius]

fizzy spoo'd forth:
> --- Aquarius <aquarius-lists at kryogenix.org> wrote:
> 
>> Seriously, try Knoppix again...
> 
> I looked at DSL, but as you say, it's partly non
> debian so that'll annoy me.  I then thought i'd try
> the full debian installer.  Only, it doesn't work.  It
> falls over moaning about umount on some usb proc file,
> very strange.  So yes, I guess I'm back to another
> knoppix install, and trying again to remove all the
> crap.  Linux is well ready for the desktop I tell you
> ;)

The hell with the Debian installer. Even the new one is a pain. Knoppix
is the Way. What did you find wrong with removing stuff? I'm puzzled.

dpkg --get-selections will list all the packages (or dpkg --list | grep
^i, as discussed), and then construct one Great Big Delete Line:
apt-get --purge remove kdelibs4 gnome-core twm blah blah blah
and that'll remove most of it. It'll show you a list of stuff it'll
remove, so you can eyeball that list to make sure that X isn't being
removed or anything. Note that removing kdelibs4 will remove all of
KDE, because it all depends on it, and removing gnome-core (I think
that's what it's called) will remove Gnome. Note also the --dry-run
option to apt-get, if you want to see what it'd do without actually
doing it, and rtfapt-getm for more details. :)

Aq.

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