Thanks, Thomas. With this advice (and the realization that I had kernel source also on the hd), I've managed to trim things down reasonably well. But, I'm still befuddled a bit. I try: dpkg -l and get a listing of -- what, exactly? I guess I don't understand the help docs on this. There are packages listed there as installed, but running apt-get remove on them says "not installed so not removed." Do I just corrupted tables? What is the canonical way to get a listing of what's actually installed? PS: Hopefully, this time I've left my header intact! <grin> Thomas Stivers writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Oct 02 2004 at 05:53:22PM -0400, 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? > > Here is where dependencies can come in handy. If you remove a package > like xfree86-common apt will remove all the things that depend on it. It > won't work if you just remove x-window-system because it is a virtual > package which depends on other packages but is not itself depended on. > Chances are if you remove the xfree86-server or x-clients-base you'll > take out a lot of what you want to get rid of. > > > 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. > > Yeah I don't doubt it. Gnome is really a memory/processor hog. > > > Reply-To: > > X-Operating-System: Linux concerto.rednote.net 2.6.8-1.541.root > > Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) > > X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html > > I think you may have started writing in the middle of your headers. > *chuckle*
