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| Believe it or not, I'm running the bare minimal on a thinkpad 233mmx with a
2.1 gb hdd and 64mb of ram. Talk about CRAWL!
I'm using the KDE package installer to install/uninstall, but the biggest
issue I have is trying to uninstall quickly in the KDE environment.
I'm poking around and cannot find the method to uninstall and install
packages from the commandline.
How do I do this when I boot the system?
Thanks a lot in advance..
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| ArameFarpado 2006-09-10, 7:15 am |
| mg wrote:
> Believe it or not, I'm running the bare minimal on a thinkpad 233mmx with
> a 2.1 gb hdd and 64mb of ram. Talk about CRAWL!
>
> I'm using the KDE package installer to install/uninstall, but the biggest
> issue I have is trying to uninstall quickly in the KDE environment.
>
> I'm poking around and cannot find the method to uninstall and install
> packages from the commandline.
>
> How do I do this when I boot the system?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance..
you might wanna try "aptitude"
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| On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:44:53 -0500, mg wrote:
> Believe it or not, I'm running the bare minimal on a thinkpad 233mmx with a
> 2.1 gb hdd and 64mb of ram. Talk about CRAWL!
>
> I'm using the KDE package installer to install/uninstall, but the biggest
> issue I have is trying to uninstall quickly in the KDE environment.
>
> I'm poking around and cannot find the method to uninstall and install
> packages from the commandline.
>
> How do I do this when I boot the system?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance..
IMHO - you're insane to be using KDE or Gnome on a 233. Try XFCE or
Enlightenment.
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| The 32 MB Swap file is thrashing like a XXXXX in heat, a dog without
warning, its appetite for disk is oh so horny.
Not familiar with Aptitude, however, I deselected everything in KDE for all
of the gnome subset.
I started that at, oh around 630ish and its been running about 4 hours now.
Insanity, Ya.
Is Aptitude a CLI?
"ArameFarpado" <a-farpado.spam@netcabo.pt> wrote in message
news:4503ff38$0$75037$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
> mg wrote:
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> you might wanna try "aptitude"
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| s. keeling 2006-09-10, 1:12 pm |
| mg <mygroup@charter.net>:
> "ArameFarpado" <a-farpado.spam@netcabo.pt> wrote in message
> news:4503ff38$0$75037$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...
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> The 32 MB Swap file is thrashing like a XXXXX in heat, a dog
Please don't "top post."
You haven't enough RAM for the software you're running. Try another
window manager (fluxbox, blackbox, openbox, fvwm) instead of KDE. At
a commandline, type "free".
> Not familiar with Aptitude, however, I deselected everything in KDE for all
> of the gnome subset.
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> I started that at, oh around 630ish and its been running about 4 hours now.
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> Is Aptitude a CLI?
Yes and no. It has both CLI and curses based (character based
graphical) modes. man aptitude.
As root:
apt-get update && aptitude update && aptitude upgrade
then:
aptitude show wm
then (ie.):
aptitude install fluxbox
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| Paul Johnson 2006-09-17, 1:13 am |
| mg wrote:
> I'm poking around and cannot find the method to uninstall and install
> packages from the commandline.
dpkg, apt-get, aptitude are the commands you want on the command line. And
KDE might be a little overkill for a bitty box like that one...might try
afterstep instead...
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| Paul Johnson 2006-09-17, 1:13 am |
| mg wrote:
> The 32 MB Swap file is thrashing like a XXXXX in heat, a dog without
> warning, its appetite for disk is oh so horny.
Baby got backwards posted...
http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting
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