I have today looked back over the archives of the ALUG Main Lists. I see that I started, June-July 2001, with trying to get Mandrake to install, (new IDE cables cured the fault I seem to remember), but within that time I'd moved on to Red Hat, was pleased that it went in and worked didn't like it and had moved on to Slackware by December. Since then I've kept having tries at Debian. It was an ambition to get Debian installed, for the last week I've had it running and as long as one sticks to using KDE, there seems to be no recognisable difference between the two both stable both what I'm used to.
I have however taken Debian out and re-installed the base system. I'd like to know if there is a way of getting what I have with Slackware, a text log-in for both user and root with the ability to switch to a GUI by using <startx>, and how does one get rid of the Gnome? There seems to be an awful lot of other stuff in there that Slackware doesn't seem to need to provide the same apps, are all these dependencies really necessary?
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John Seago johnseago@two-ravens.org.uk wrote: <snip />
I have however taken Debian out and re-installed the base system. I'd like to know if there is a way of getting what I have with Slackware, a text log-in for both user and root with the ability to switch to a GUI by using <startx>, and how does one get rid of the Gnome? There seems to be an awful lot of other stuff in there that Slackware doesn't seem to need to provide the same apps, are all these dependencies really necessary?
Right, remove xdm/gdm/kdm/whatever login manager you've got installed, that'll make it so that you don't get the grafical login screen, and you should be able to startx as you're used to (though, ISTR that there's some more tricks that are needed, I'll test tommorow, if I get a chance). As for gnome stuff, why not just leave it there? are you short on disk space? Sometimes the Gnome apps can be of use (AbiWord and Gnumeric spring to mind here).
Hope that helps,
- -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:10:42 +0000 John Seago johnseago@two-ravens.org.uk wrote:
I have today looked back over the archives of the ALUG Main Lists. I see that I started, June-July 2001, with trying to get Mandrake to install, (new IDE cables cured the fault I seem to remember), but within that time I'd moved on to Red Hat, was pleased that it went in and worked didn't like it and had moved on to Slackware by December. Since then I've kept having tries at Debian. It was an ambition to get Debian installed, for the last week I've had it running and as long as one sticks to using KDE, there seems to be no recognisable difference between the two both stable both what I'm used to.
I have however taken Debian out and re-installed the base system. I'd like to know if there is a way of getting what I have with Slackware, a text log-in for both user and root with the ability to switch to a GUI by using <startx>, and how does one get rid of the Gnome?
dpkg --get-selections | grep gnome | tr "\t" " " | sed -e "s/ *[ de]*install$//"
lists all packages that have the word gnome in them
dpkg -r each in the list I wont but sypathise with you as I wound this anoying now I just press CTRL-ALT F1 to log into my computer and user the terribly insecure startx which makes hijacking your session easy which is why I use it.
There seems to be an awful lot of other stuff in there that Slackware doesn't seem to need to provide the same apps, are all these dependencies really necessary?
What do you think? I find debian a good flexable OS, Would you ever ever try rhythembox on a slackware box?
Regards
Owen
PS if using woody then
dpkg -l
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