fINTiP
May 20th, 2008, 05:21 AM
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I run a very, very slim system on my laptop.
I used the mini install CD, and I intentionally did not install a graphical login manager ("display manager"); I login in the terminal in tty1, and start fluxbox with 'startx'.
I was trying to short term install a program to rip some songs off of a friend's ipod shuffle, so I did
sudo aptitude install gtkpod
Used gtkpod, but it wouldn't find it, was having problems.
So I did
sudo aptitude remove gtkpod
Which should have completely removed everything installed with gtkpod, as well as gtkpod itself,
and then decided to try Banshee.
sudo aptitude install banshee
It wanted to install 400+ packages with it, but I figured, "it's fine, I'm using aptitude, so when I uninstall, all will be wiped again". I thought it was a bit excessive, but I just figured it was a heavy program.
I couldn't get banshee to work either (appeared to be a dbus problem...), so I did
sudo aptitude remove banshee
And expected all to be right... but I did notice that I still had about 600+ extra megabytes of data on my system that wasn't there before.
I was in a bit of a rush though, so I turned comp off and decided to come back later.
I came back, turned it on, logged in, ran startx...
...and a jacked up version of GNOME starts up, only, no frames around windows, and no terminal accesible from the menu system.
Mind you, I can't access my tty's, which is another problem, so I have no terminal once I use startx.
WHAT the HELL.
?!?!?!!?!?
Please help?
----------------------
1. Why did Banshee install gnome with it?
2. Why didn't aptitude remove gnome with banshee?
3. How do I correct this? Is there a way to uninstall everything installed within a certain time frame?
4. ?!?!?!?!
thanks.
.L
I run a very, very slim system on my laptop.
I used the mini install CD, and I intentionally did not install a graphical login manager ("display manager"); I login in the terminal in tty1, and start fluxbox with 'startx'.
I was trying to short term install a program to rip some songs off of a friend's ipod shuffle, so I did
sudo aptitude install gtkpod
Used gtkpod, but it wouldn't find it, was having problems.
So I did
sudo aptitude remove gtkpod
Which should have completely removed everything installed with gtkpod, as well as gtkpod itself,
and then decided to try Banshee.
sudo aptitude install banshee
It wanted to install 400+ packages with it, but I figured, "it's fine, I'm using aptitude, so when I uninstall, all will be wiped again". I thought it was a bit excessive, but I just figured it was a heavy program.
I couldn't get banshee to work either (appeared to be a dbus problem...), so I did
sudo aptitude remove banshee
And expected all to be right... but I did notice that I still had about 600+ extra megabytes of data on my system that wasn't there before.
I was in a bit of a rush though, so I turned comp off and decided to come back later.
I came back, turned it on, logged in, ran startx...
...and a jacked up version of GNOME starts up, only, no frames around windows, and no terminal accesible from the menu system.
Mind you, I can't access my tty's, which is another problem, so I have no terminal once I use startx.
WHAT the HELL.
?!?!?!!?!?
Please help?
----------------------
1. Why did Banshee install gnome with it?
2. Why didn't aptitude remove gnome with banshee?
3. How do I correct this? Is there a way to uninstall everything installed within a certain time frame?
4. ?!?!?!?!
thanks.
.L