Sadly, reinstalling won't work. Mandrake just refuses to install without X. But never
fear, it's
POSSIBLE to remove all offending packages (rpm packages).
# rpm -qa |grep [xX]
will give you a bunch of packages, probably not all of which are X-related, but many
of which
are.
Here's what *I* would do: Go into X, fire up rpmdrake and remove all of your optional
x programs
(xemacs, etc etc). Get rid of a few libraries too, if possible. It will blab about a
bunch of
dependancies and do you want to remove those too, and you say yes. Mass uninstallation
of
electives. That should make the list generated from the command above quite a bit
shorter. Then,
with X not running, remove the rest. Read the manpage for rpm, but it's something
along the lines
of
# rpm -e <packagename>
and if it whines about depenancies, then go remove the dependancies first, then the
<packagename>.
There must be easier ways to do it, i can think of one that involves a series of shell
scripts,
but it's one way to do it.
The moral of the story is that all of the X-related files you want gone are a product
of installed
rpm packages, so "the correct way" to rid your system of them is to uninstall the rpm
packages.
Good luck,
j
--- Karl Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> Does anyone have a procedure for removing the entire Xwindows system and
> everything under it? I have LM7.2, which installed X by default, but I
> don't expect to use it on this box and I'd like to remove the extra clutter.
>
> I can just remove the appropriate subdirectories, but I imagine there'd be
> trouble if I only did that. I can reinstall, but I'd rather not...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karl Cunningham
>
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