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araruna
March 25th, 2010, 05:03 AM
Hi, guys.

I, someday in my life, tried to add GUI to my installation of ubuntu server 8.04 LTS (don't ask me why, :D ).
The problem is, I gave up before the instalation had finished, and some packages became broken.
Now, everytime I try to install a new package, aptitude forces me to also install the dependencies of the previously "installed" packages, like abiword, xinit and so on.

The worst part: I don't remember what package I used to try this installation (x-window-system-core, gnome, gnome-core, {k,x,}ubuntu-desktop...).

Does anybody have any suggestions??? I must fix this as soon as possible, because this server is already at production... :(

The output from aptitude is listed below (just the list of suggested [imposed] packages):

The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
abiword abiword-common abiword-help abiword-plugins aspell aspell-en
dictionaries-common doc-base docbook-xml dvipdfmx gnome-icon-theme
hicolor-icon-theme imagemagick latex-beamer latex-xcolor latex-xft-fonts
libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a libaiksaurus-1.2-data libaiksaurusgtk-1.2-0c2a
libart-2.0-2 libaspell15 libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libcairo2 libcroco3
libdatrie0 libdjvulibre15 libdrm2 libenchant1c2a libfontenc1 libfs6
libgail-common libgail18 libgd2-noxpm libgdome2-0 libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a
libgl1-mesa-glx libglade2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common
libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data
libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgraphviz4 libgsf-1-114
libgsf-1-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common
libgtkmathview0c2a libhunspell-1.1-0 libice6 libjasper1 libkpathsea4
liblcms1 liblink-grammar4 libmagick10 libopenexr2ldbl libots0
libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpixman-1-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common
libscrollkeeper0 libsm6 libt1-5 libthai-data libthai0 libwmf0.2-7
libwpd-stream8c2a libwpd8c2a libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxaw7
libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxdmcp6
libxext6 libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxkbfile1
libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxslt1.1 libxt6
libxtrap6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86misc1 libxxf86vm1
link-grammar-dictionaries-en lmodern perl-tk pgf prosper python-psyco
scrollkeeper sgml-data shared-mime-info tetex-bin tex-common texlive
texlive-base texlive-base-bin texlive-base-bin-doc texlive-common
texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc
texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-pstricks
texlive-pstricks-doc tipa x-ttcidfont-conf x11-apps x11-common
x11-session-utils x11-utils x11-xfs-utils x11-xkb-utils x11-xserver-utils
xauth xbase-clients xdg-utils xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils
xinit xsltproc xutils xutils-dev xvfb


Thank you all. ;)

zvacet
March 25th, 2010, 02:42 PM
Maybe this is not most elegant way to do it but install that packages.After that with


apt-cache search

find witch desktop (or other package witch pull all those dependencies) you installed.Remove it with (please check first that command is right).For example if it is xubuntu-desktop


sudo taskel remove xubuntu-desktop

araruna
March 25th, 2010, 05:44 PM
Well, I already tried to remove all those packages I mentioned which install GUI to ubuntu server via aptitude remove. None of them is installed, but aptitude still wants to install the other ones...

Should I allow them to be installed and after manage to uninstall them?

Thanks :D

zvacet
March 25th, 2010, 10:55 PM
Should I allow them to be installed and after manage to uninstall them?

Yes,I think it is the only way,because if you donīt install that packages you will not be able to install anything.

EDIT: If you want to see witch desktop you installed (for example xubuntu-desktop)


apt-cache show xubuntu-desktop

In my case it look like this


~$ apt-cache show ubuntu-desktop
Package: ubuntu-desktop
Priority: optional
Section: metapackages
Installed-Size: 56
Maintainer: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Source: ubuntu-meta
Version: 1.175


and after that long list of dependencies.Pay attention on Installed-Size: 56

zvacet
March 26th, 2010, 12:39 AM
Easier way to find out witch desktop you installed is to type


tasksel -t