wlaver _ wrote:
I've installed gnome,and some other packages that I didn't really want in the first place on my Debian box. My question is, how do I unistall packages like gnome, that have many files associated with it, in one command?The easiest way is something like:
apt-get remove gnome-core
which tells apt to yank out the core GNOME binaries, and anything that depends on them. You'll be asked for confirmation before anything is removed; double-check that you don't want any of the packages listed. If there are some you want to keep, try using "apt-cache show" to determine their dependencies, and create a more complex version of the above. It may be easier to let apt remove it all, then reinstall what you wanted.
HJ Hornbeck
