This is confusing... I went into tasksel and chose the stuff I wanted and didn't select anything I didn't like xfree86 or any of the languages. but It still wanted to download gnome, abiword, kde, just to name a few. what I'm thinking is it's just downloading these but not installing them or something? ----- Original Message ----- From: "White, Matt" <mattw@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 5:31 PM Subject: Re: debian problems > TaskSel should help you here; you want to go in there and remove the > packages you do not need. > > If you know the name of the particular package you want to get rid of, you > can also do > > apt-get remove packagename > > Matt > > <quote who="Alex Snow"> > > It seems that debian decided to install *everything*. including all the > > language environments etc. How do I get rid of this stuff? Sorry for > > the stupid questions;I'm new to this. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
