Removing make

[anonprivate]

I though that I might try and compile some files. This was unsuccessful

In order to compile, I needed to install 'make'. After my unsuccessful attempt at compiling, I decided to redeem the space. To my surprises, I cannot remove 'make' using e DEB Package Manager!

There is a red symbol on the bottom right hand corner of the DEB icon (in package manager). Is this significant? (it must be).

Advice please.

Happy New Year

PS. Is there a compiling primer available

[MoonRise]

Usually when needing to compile you need to make sure you have "build-essential" installed. It is supposed to include all the bits necessary to compile.

[anonprivate]

Usually when needing to compile you need to make sure you have "build-essential" installed. It is supposed to include all the bits necessary to compile.

I now have both packages installed.

Why could I not remove 'make'?

What do those little blue bits in the bottom right hand corner of the DEB icon in the Package Manager signify?

Happy New Year

[NickStone]

The command

[COLOR=#111111][FONT=Consolas]apt-cache rdepends make[/FONT][/COLOR]

Should give you a list of all dependencies of the make command then once you have the list you can then use the following command to remove make and its dependencies

apt-get remove package1 package2 etc.

[anonprivate]

The command

[COLOR=#111111][FONT=Consolas]apt-cache rdepends make[/FONT][/COLOR]

Should give you a list of all dependencies of the make command then once you have the list you can then use the following command to remove make and its dependencies

apt-get remove package1 package2 etc.

Thank you.

Are you saying that the little red symbol on the DEB package means that it has dependencies?

[oshunluvr]

Curious as to why you feel the need to remove make? It's like 356KB (that's KB not MB) and if you ever install anything not packaged for debian you'll end up re-installing it anyway. On my system, the 100's of reverse depends include the nvidia drivers and kubuntu-desktop and build-essential among other very important packages.

Why risk breaking your system for 356KB?

[NickStone]

Curious as to why you feel the need to remove make? It's like 356KB (that's KB not MB) and if you ever install anything not packaged for debian you'll end up re-installing it anyway. On my system, the 100's of reverse depends include the nvidia drivers and kubuntu-desktop and build-essential among other very important packages.

Why risk breaking your system for 356KB?

If the OP is happy to download and install from binery packages only then removing it won' t affect his system

[NickStone]

Thank you.

Are you saying that the little red symbol on the DEB package means that it has dependencies?

I have no idea, I've stopped using Ubuntu a while ago. But most package managers will either warn you about removing packages with dependencies or refuse to remove them without removing the dependencies at the same time.

[Snowhog]

What do those little blue bits in the bottom right hand corner of the DEB icon in the Package Manager signify?

Those are 'KDE Gears' and signify that the package is built specifically for KDE.