<quote who="Mike Lake"> > Hi all, > > > So Debian is snack eh ? :-) > I am trying to do a dist-upgrade from potato to woody but dont have enough > space in /var for the deb archives (have 70Meg need 120 Meg). As gnome is > big and I dont actually use it I though I would remove that which would free > up lots of space and those updates for gnome would not get downloaded. > But when I ask the system to remove gnome (guessing that I remove gnome-core > and the dependency info will remove the other gnomeish things) it wants > to install new packages. > > > apt-get remove gnome-core
Perhaps you might have better luck with: dpkg -r gnome-core or dpkg -P gnome-core regards, Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
