I guess you can't remove emacs, some functionallity it offers is needed - so if you remove it, a substitute has to be installed.Originally Posted by drews
How come when I tried to use apt-get to remove a package to regain disk space, it starts to install extra packages that take up more space than before?
See output below... (and another question is: when I'm thru with apt-get can I remove all the files under /var/cache/apt? this is to make room for a knoppix liveCD remaster)
Code:# apt-get remove emacs21 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gettext-el libcompfaceg1 libdb3 libtiff4 xemacs21 xemacs21-basesupport xemacs21-bin xemacs21-nomule xemacs21-support Suggested packages: xemacs21-supportel The following packages will be REMOVED: emacs21 The following NEW packages will be installed: libcompfaceg1 libtiff4 xemacs21 xemacs21-basesupport xemacs21-bin xemacs21-nomule xemacs21-support The following packages will be upgraded: gettext-el libdb3 2 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 1 to remove and 569 not upgraded. Need to get 26.3MB of archives. After unpacking 73.9MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
I guess you can't remove emacs, some functionallity it offers is needed - so if you remove it, a substitute has to be installed.Originally Posted by drews
Weird indeed ! Maybe you should use the '-s' flag (simulate) first so you see what apt would do. Try 'apt-get -s remove xemacs21' Deborphan is also useful to spot unneeded libraries which are safe to remove.
Yes, you can purge the local package cache. just type 'apt-get clean'Originally Posted by drews
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