Re: Purging depends in cinnamon
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 12:34:51AM -0500, Frank wrote: Yes it's a virtual package with a long list of depends. I ended up purging it which also took out 25 or 30 other packages...none of which I need anyway. So, all's well that ends well. You could always install the ones you wanted again individually afterwards, anyway. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150303075939.GA1996@tal
Re: Purging depends in cinnamon
On 03/03/2015 01:25 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank wrote: I recently installed the cinnamon desktop in my Sid installation which of course brought in Icedove and Ice Weasel as well as a number of other programs. Is there any way to eliminate them, as I have been running Thunderbird and firefox. Trying to purge them results in aptitude wanting to purge a lot of other stuff, including the cinnamon-desktop-environment. The usual suggestion is to use the 'equivs' package to create a local replacement package for iceweasl and the others. The local package would provide the iceweasel name so that dpkg thinks they are installed but in reality it is simply an empty package holding the name. //snip// Bob That's good to know Bob. I'll make a note of that for the next time this might happen. As it is now, I allowed Aptitude to remove all it wanted to and then re-installed one or two packages. Thanks Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54f6133d.70...@videotron.ca
Re: Purging depends in cinnamon
Frank wrote: I recently installed the cinnamon desktop in my Sid installation which of course brought in Icedove and Ice Weasel as well as a number of other programs. Is there any way to eliminate them, as I have been running Thunderbird and firefox. Trying to purge them results in aptitude wanting to purge a lot of other stuff, including the cinnamon-desktop-environment. The usual suggestion is to use the 'equivs' package to create a local replacement package for iceweasl and the others. The local package would provide the iceweasel name so that dpkg thinks they are installed but in reality it is simply an empty package holding the name. $ apt-cache show equivs Description-en: Circumvent Debian package dependencies This package provides a tool to create trivial Debian packages. Typically these packages contain only dependency information, but they can also include normal installed files like other packages do. . One use for this is to create a metapackage: a package whose sole purpose is to declare dependencies and conflicts on other packages so that these will be automatically installed, upgraded, or removed. . Another use is to circumvent dependency checking: by letting dpkg think a particular package name and version is installed when it isn't, you can work around bugs in other packages' dependencies. (Please do still file such bugs, though.) Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Purging depends in cinnamon
On 02/03/15 11:03 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 12:59:28PM -0500, Frank wrote: I recently installed the cinnamon desktop in my Sid installation which of course brought in Icedove and Ice Weasel as well as a number of other programs. Is there any way to eliminate them, as I have been running Thunderbird and firefox. Trying to purge them results in aptitude wanting to purge a lot of other stuff, including the cinnamon-desktop-environment. One of could be a virtual package depending on Iceweasel etc. I'd check with e.g. a combination of 'apt-cache rdepends iceweasel' and 'apt-cache show packagename' I don't use cinnammon so don't know the exact packagename. Yes it's a virtual package with a long list of depends. I ended up purging it which also took out 25 or 30 other packages...none of which I need anyway. So, all's well that ends well. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54f547fb.9040...@videotron.ca
Re: Purging depends in cinnamon
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 12:59:28PM -0500, Frank wrote: I recently installed the cinnamon desktop in my Sid installation which of course brought in Icedove and Ice Weasel as well as a number of other programs. Is there any way to eliminate them, as I have been running Thunderbird and firefox. Trying to purge them results in aptitude wanting to purge a lot of other stuff, including the cinnamon-desktop-environment. One of could be a virtual package depending on Iceweasel etc. I'd check with e.g. a combination of 'apt-cache rdepends iceweasel' and 'apt-cache show packagename' I don't use cinnammon so don't know the exact packagename. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150303040341.GD26281@tal
Purging depends in cinnamon
I recently installed the cinnamon desktop in my Sid installation which of course brought in Icedove and Ice Weasel as well as a number of other programs. Is there any way to eliminate them, as I have been running Thunderbird and firefox. Trying to purge them results in aptitude wanting to purge a lot of other stuff, including the cinnamon-desktop-environment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54f4a500.8080...@videotron.ca
