Richard, You can do a 'dpkg --purge <package name>
Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard B. Talley wrote: > > Nebu John Mathai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes this day 25 Feb 98: > > > I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the > > package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every > > package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had > > asked it for). > > > > I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is. > > It's not your stupidity but the computer's, or rather its lack of > a sense of context for your request. > > The remove command removes all selected programs. > > The install command installs all selected programs AND removes programs > currently installed that have been deselected by the user. > > Therefore to remove *one* package only, deselect that one package and > choose *install*. This makes sense but only if you think like a computer. > > Regards, > > Richard B. Talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web > page appears to > be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little > chance of reading > a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another > network." > -Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996 > quoted at 'Best Viewed With Any Browser' http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
