On Monday 31 Aug 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > Oh! OK. I just thought of that as the backports repository. I can
> > disable that in KPackageKit. In fact, I've been wondering what would
> > happen if I did just that, without removing anything. I might try it
> > before I remove KDE.
>
> Yes, John Carlyle-Clarke was saying, if I understood correctly, that by
> doing that synaptic gives you the option to `clean up' the packages that
> are installed but don't come from a repo that it knows about.
Well I'm halfway. I tried disabling the backports repository in KPackageKit,
but didn't get any prompt. Perhaps if I'd originally done it in Synaptic it
would have worked.
Anyway, I've installed the XUbuntu desktop and am using it now. The good news
is that all of my sound is working in here, proving that it was a KDE 4.3
update that broke it. The next step is to remove KDE and then let Synaptic
put 4.2 back on.
--
Terry Coles
64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux
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