I installed Kubuntu Dapper Drake on a laptop due to KDD's theoretically
better out-of-the-box support for hibernation and such.[1] Since the
laptop's sound is dead due to a faulty volume control knob I decided to
free up some memory and disk space by calling up 'adept' and removing
alsa and arts.

adept dutifully removed alsa, arts...and *everything that had the
slightest dependency on either*, including KDE and, yes, itself.

I rebooted and finished what adept had started by wiping KDD from my HD.

Now where did I put those Slackware install disks?

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1. If you wondered, 'theoretically better' means that where Slackware
does nothing vis-a-vis this sort of power management, Kubuntu does
everything -- except, occasionally, the bit about remembering to turn
the screen back on so that you can, for example, do things.

Le Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:31:14 +0000, Forrest a écrit*:

> I installed Kubuntu Dapper Drake on a laptop due to KDD's theoretically
> better out-of-the-box support for hibernation and such.[1] Since the
> laptop's sound is dead due to a faulty volume control knob I decided to
> free up some memory and disk space by calling up 'adept' and removing
> alsa and arts.
>
> adept dutifully removed alsa, arts...and *everything that had the
> slightest dependency on either*, including KDE and, yes, itself.
>
> I rebooted and finished what adept had started by wiping KDD from my HD.
>
> Now where did I put those Slackware install disks?
>
> ______________________
> 1. If you wondered, 'theoretically better' means that where Slackware
> does nothing vis-a-vis this sort of power management, Kubuntu does
> everything -- except, occasionally, the bit about remembering to turn
> the screen back on so that you can, for example, do things.


Be happy, you didn't even fail into the usual 'dependency hell',
you're now face to face with a clean disk and a trained mind, so
I believe you'll find out within a pinch of ohnoseconds where
*some* of your Slackware install disks are :-)

Anyway, you'd also be fine trying just a boot on any distro/liveCD
you have at hand that allows network and fdisk, then DL the Slackware
basics on a small free partition and install/boot then resume the
install (start with a 2.4.32 basis, the 2.6* are very shaky those last
500 days (and it's not Slackware related) (though I'll admit the
patch/week ratio slowed down a lot and the boot/nohand ratio increased
impressively since Xma//.

/here commershils (sorry Frank +-)
Slackware and balls
Send the ANCes out for ribs
Send the roadies out for more
Chew'em up
\here commershils (sorry Alex, anyway we know Tomorrow belongs to Slack ;o)