Thanks, Sean. I'll try as you suggest. I have successfully run Gnome with Gnopernicus on a 350 Mhz Pentium 3, but I wouldn't want to actually do work with a machine that old. While the latencies weren't painful, still they were quite obvious and annoying--and that was without any actual applications open. I will be trying on a 700 Mhz system soon and will report. The unit I'm cleaning of is an old Pentium 2 at 200 Mhz with a 2 Gb hd. It's smashingly fast in the console, of course. Sean M McMahon writes: > If you know how to use aptitude I'd recommend using it and going all the > way down to tasks. Under tasks you will find one for x-windows or > x-server. It might be in the servers group. Note then when you remove x > related stuff, you will get a warning about emacs being broken if you > emacs. Don't worry about that one, remove emacs and install the package > emacs-nox. That saved a lot of space on my 800MB, no that's not a > miss-print hd.BTW, you mention your p2 is to slow for gnome, how fast is > it? I have a p2-400 I'd like to linuxify. > Sean > PS. if your more comfortable with tasksel, use that instead of aptitude. > > > > > Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> > Sent by: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > 10/02/2004 02:53 PM > Please respond to "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > cc: > Subject: Debian Uninstall Question > > > 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 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. > > 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 > > > -- > > Janina > Sajka, Chair > Accessibility Workgroup > Free > Standards Group (FSG) > > janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
