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s-r-b
10-04-2004, 03:41 PM
Hi,

I recently installed Knoppix to hard drive and now wish to free up some space by uninstalling programs. However, when I try to uninstall mozilla with apt, it says only 23K will be freed up... I expect it should be about 1000 times that... do I need to upgrade mozilla first? Is it because original source files are not present?

Thanks for any help.

Markus
10-04-2004, 05:13 PM
mozilla is just a metapackage, hence small size. Check what's installed with:
COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l|grep mozilla

s-r-b
10-05-2004, 05:59 PM
mozilla is just a metapackage, hence small size. Check what's installed with:
COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l|grep mozilla

Thanks for the pointer... I figured out it worked with "apt-get remove mozilla*"... uninstalled 43MB! :-)