On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:53:22AM EST, Janina Sajka wrote: > Is there a way to remove a related group of applications with apt? Or do > you have to take them out one at a time and do it in the right order > because of the dependencies? I think it depends on what is in the group of packages you want removed, perhaps meta packages would be useful in this case, depending on version, I guess. > I ask because I have an old Pentium 2 with a fairly small hd, and I need > to take out all the X (except perhaps the Xlibs). The hd is getting full > and this box is too slow for Gnome anyway. I think you can simply remove x-window-system and gnome-desktop-environment to remove the respective sets of packages, however I am not sure whether that would remove everything, and there is also a chance it will remove packages that you still might need for other things. Luke
