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Hi, Unfortunately I have done someting incredebly stupid: I accedentally installed Gnome on my server, instead of the debian desktop box I am preparing for my children. I had a ...
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    removing gnom& xserver

    Hi,

    Unfortunately I have done someting incredebly stupid: I accedentally
    installed Gnome on my server, instead of the debian desktop box I am
    preparing for my children.

    I had a nice lean server with just the stuff I needed and working fine
    (Debian Sarge: apache2, postfix, MySQL, etc.), ergo no desktop utils or Xserver. By
    making a typo in Putty I gave the command 'apt-get install gnome' to
    the wrong box and installed 176 megs of stuff I don't need. And 'apt-get remove gnome' leaves me with 175,5 megs of stuff I need nor want on my system.

    Any help, suggestions and/or instructions for a resonably quick/easy way of removing all of this would be most welcome.

    regards,

    Andy
    (Currently kicking himself...)

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    apt-get --purge remove gnome* xserver-xorg/xfree86

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    Thx!

    Worked like a charm.

    Thx!

    Andy

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