Thanks a lot for the info! I never knew about --reinstall. I should really read up on apt-get more. Unfortunately the command didn't change the double tap of the power button required to bring up the reboot menu..... but dpkg -x worked great..... thanks for the trick. I've been lazy and never got around to picking up dpkg, thinking rpm would be all I'd ever need :-\

As for the service, I've added the package that allows me to turn on/off services via the control panel Extras menu. The sliderotate entry is still there. I don't see anything listed in ls –l /etc/rc2.d/S* though (actually rc0-6). /etc/init.d/sliderotate is still there. I should zap it.... as well as these:

/usr/lib/sliderotate/sliderotate.pyc
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sliderotate.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sliderotate.postrm

am I missing anything else here?







Off topic, but should I be worried about anything here?

# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
avahi-daemon canola2 kernel-diablo-flasher libdb4.2 libxml2 xserver-xomap
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.


Seeing kernel-diablo-flasher and xserver-xomap kind of worry me.