Thanks Shawn and John. Sounds like something for a rainy day.
Shawn, I chose "server" during install.
I'll let you know how it went after I do it.
Thanks again,
Karl
At 09:33 3/2/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>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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