[ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

[Rowan Berkeley]

I find the Synaptic package manager a bit confusing. Maybe this is
explained in the help notes, but, in general, there are certain items
marked with a solid orange square and others not, and they're all
independently tickable, then there is the choice between 'remove' and
'complete remove'. Is there a simple general rule for how to remove some
complex set of items, such as Firefox-as-a-whole, and re-install it?  

On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 17:04 +0000, Tony Pursell wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2009 at 7:23, Sean Miller wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Rowan Berkeley
> > <rowan.berkeley at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > Sounds good to me (but I can already hear Al thinking to himself, what a
> > > typical lazy windoze style solution, he'll never learn anything if he
> > > just uninstalls and re-installs en bloc every time he has detailed
> > > issues...)
> > 
> > Nah.... there are more important things to do with your time than
> > faffing about with a corrupted Firefox.  If you uninstall and
> > re-install you'll also possibly get a more up-to-date version, so tell
> > him that's your motivation if he moans... ;-)
> > 
> > Sean
> > 
> 
> This might not be a bad idea.  My wife found Firefox to be hanging on 
> videos in Windows until it was upgraded to a new version.  Personally. 
> I have never had this problem in Windows or Ubuntu. 
> 
> So a re-install and the ubuntu-restricted-extras might be all you need.
> 
> Tony
> 
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