[PlanetCCRMA] Synaptic doesn't really remove packages...

[Mark Knecht]

Fernando,
   Thanks for checking that out. Thought I was going crazy. Good to know how
to do it with apt-get also.

   I'll look forward to the new version one of these days. I'm doing a lot
of removes of RPM versions these days to test CVS versions for the developer
groups. I then reinstall from your source base to keep current.

   It would be nice to know how to leave your version in place and still be
able to run theirs, but rpm -e and later apt-get isn't a real big deal.

   Again, my thanks.

Cheers,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano [mailto:nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU]
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:18 PM
To: Mark Knecht
Cc: PlanetCCRMA (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Synaptic doesn't really remove packages...


> ...or I don't understand how to do it.
>
> I select a package to have it remove, select remove, and I see a red down
> arrow. I say proceed, and it acts like it's removing the package, but it
> doesn't.

You are right, for some reason it does not remove it. I tested the same
operation on the newer version version of synaptic (0.24) that I built for
redhat 8.0 and it seems to work fine. But that requires an update to apt
itself (to the new 0.5.4 version).

You could use apt-get to erase packages as well. The command is:
  apt-get remove package_name

As with apt-get install it will track dependencies and prompt you before
erasing the packages.

I'll upgrade the 7.2/7.3 apt/synaptic rpms to the newer versions soon.

-- Fernando