T wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:41:05 -0500, Kent West wrote:
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Problem is, nothing I do will completely purge it. aptitude ...
apt-get and dselect have been similarly useless for this task.
how did you do?
Well, this was on a university lab machine that hadn't been updated in a
semester or so, so I ran into other problems also, such as the apt-cache
limit. The normal tricks didn't get around that problem, and between
fighting that problem and the X11 problem, I wound up horking the
machine royally.
This machine is dual-boot, and I already had the Windows side updated,
now I was trying to update the Sid side, so I could copy the image off
that box and then blow it down to the other 20 or so machines in the lab.
I finally just gave up and moved to a second machine, updated the Debian
side, then used my imaging software to move over the relevant partitions
from the second machine having an up-to-date Debian side and out-of-date
Windows side, to the first machine having an up-to-date Windows side but
hosed Debian side.
The first machine now works again properly; I'll do another few tweaks
to both sides, and then spread the joy to the other lab machines.
In other words, I never solved my problems. I cheated.
Thanks, though!
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Kent
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