On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:11:26PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Is it possible to remove opera with "dpkg -r opera"? I remember at least > one other case on this list where the presence of opera turned the Xorg
I tried doing that, but the result was an attempt to remove nearly everything kde-related. > transition into a dependency nightmare. I think this is because opera > puts files into /usr/X11R6/bin and these files block the upgrade because It puts exactly one file 'opera' and that file is a shell script; the real files go into somewhere under /usr/lib. Hell if I know why they did it that way. I'm a bit of a purist (well sort of) and I've maintained for a long time that the *only* files that belong in /usr/X11R6/bin are binaries provided by X itself - stuff like xeyes,xterm, that sort of thing. I attempted to move opera out of the way, but still obtained a warning/error telling me about the opera files. > For everyone else who has not done the upgrade yet: It is probably a > good idea to uninstall some non-Debian packages first, then do the Good point. If Opera really is the culprit, by all mrans remove it prior to the upgrade - I'm sure people will have fewer headaches. The good thing is that the upgrade issue is solved (thanks to forcing the removal of x11-common) and I got X back, and then did an aptitude install kde to make sure kde was still there - it certainly seemed that a lot of it got removed as a side-effect of the upgrade. > aptitude search '~i!~Odebian' Neat trick. Brought up a slew of packages :) > Florian -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
