On 05/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 05 February 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Heracles suggested a clean reinstall of all. How does one do that from
an
> already installed Debian? I'd do it from the current Debian as that has
> internet access via bigpond. I have just command line only.
> Still I'd prefer to recover and learn more.
You are right - this is Debian after all and if there anything going for it,
is it's robust packaging system and integrated packages.
What I'll try to do is to use Aptitude (which gives an excellent interactive
interface to package dependencies), and try to remove all the X-related
stuff and get the system working well without it in console mode. Watch
carefully for the "Broken" warnings when you remove stuff and learn to tell
Aptitude which of its proposed actions you prefer to happen. Go carefully
through the proposed actions Aptitude gives you after you press "g" (for
"go") and adjust if necessary (for instance, I like to mark all "packages to
be removed" to "purge" unless there is a very exceptional reason not to).
Aptitude has a fantastic feature of flagging packages as "Auto-installed"
("M") so you if you want to remove a package mark it as "auto-installed" and
see if aptitude will offer to remove it or just leave it as installed.
Once you get the system more or less clean without X, go back to aptitude
and install package "xorg". This will install EVERYTHING about the basic
X11.
HTH,
--Amos
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