On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 08:11 +1100, meryl wrote: > I needed to do some file sharing recently and now that the task is > finished so I want to remove the Samba service. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10. ... > When I mark "samba" for removal no other files on this list are > marked. So is just marking "samba" for removal sufficient to stop this > service from starting at boot... and I don't want to keep files that > only rely on samba alone as they'll be superfluous.
At the command line: sudo apt-get autoremove The clean up 'mostly' just works but sometimes dependent libraries will be left lying around. Also in synaptic, check for a section 'Not Installed (residual config). If you want you can flag these for complete removal, cleaning up more package information. > But when I select "samba-common" to be removed, Synaptic notifies me > of a list of other files that it will also remove with "samba-common" > - one of them being "ubuntu-desktop". ubuntu provides a method for connecting to Windows shares as a client, this is part of desktop. I would not recommend removing it because upgrades become harder. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html