Re: ximian sideways-grade

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:32:31PM -0600, Danny Sauer wrote:
> So, has anyone moved from ximian back to the defaults, or has anyone found
> a way to make ximian more stable?  I'm thinking that I'll just up2date the
> system with the redhat gnome stuff and then remove all of the remaining
> packages with -ximian in their names.  That should theoretically be OK,
> right?

Should be, although I think I'd let apt-get do some of the work for
me...  Something like this:

    packages=`rpm -qa | grep ximian | sed 's/-[^-]*-[^-]*$//'`
    apt-get remove $packages
    apt-get install $packages

Of course, that's totally untested, YMMV and all that...

Steve
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