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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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
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> mg wrote:
> 
> you might wanna try "aptitude"
>
>

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mg <mygroup@charter.net>:
>  "ArameFarpado" <a-farpado.spam@netcabo.pt> wrote in message
>  news:4503ff38$0$75037$14726298@news.sunsite.dk... 
>
>  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 a
ll
>  of the gnome subset.
>
>  I started that at, oh around 630ish and its been running about 4 hours no
w.
>
>  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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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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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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