Probably others already answered this, but here goes anyway. On 9/1/2015 2:43 PM, John G Heim wrote:
I have a problem with brltty. The main problem is that it doesn't work. I just don't get anything on my braille display. I know the display is working because I can boot with a thumb drive and it works. I thought I'd try uninstalling brltty and reinstalling it but when I did that, it wanted to uninstall the mate desktop as well. In other words, if I type, "dpkg --purge brltty', it says it says that it can't do that because I'd have to uninstall ubuntu-mate-desktop first. If I ask it to show me the dependencies for brltty, ubuntu-mate-desktop is not listed.
No, but brltty-x11 is listed. You can safely purge brltty, brltty-x11 and ubuntu-mate-desktop. The later depends on brltty which depends or recommends (I'm not recalling which) brltty-x11, so there is your problem. The good news is ubuntu-mate-desktop is a metapackage, so you can safely remove it without removing your full desktop. I would not use dpkg for this. Instead, install Aptitude and do this:
aptitude -q purge brltty
Is there a way to force dpkg to recalculate it's dependencies? It has to be that the dependency date is messed up.
Not that I know of, but it's not necessary. See above. If you remove pulseaudio, it also removes the desktop metapackage. It's mostly harmless.
However, you have another option. Run the following commands: dpkg --force-all --purge brltty brltty-x11 aptitude -q install brltty brltty-x11 That won't remove the desktop metapackage. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list