Roy Britten wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 13:55 +1200, Stephen Irons wrote: > >> Installing other packages from CD or from the archives is very easy. >> Uninstalling them is a bit more tricky. >> > > Out of interest, what trouble did you have with uninstalling packages? > >
Removing a package does not remove dependant packages that become orphans when the package is removed. For instance, I installed Rosegarden (a musical score editing package, written for KDE/Qt). I then decided it was not quite what I wanted. Removing the package 'rosegarden4' only removed that single package, not: kde libraries qt libraries jack sound libraries etc. that became orphans because there are no other KDE-based applications. I believe a package called 'deborphan' exists to detect orphans, but I have not tried it. In any case, my ideal installer program would deal with this. Stephen ======================================================================= This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. =======================================================================
