Shouldn't be a problem to remove Gnome but you may run into problems removing X. There are programs that depend on X for generating graphics files and the like. Removing X can be done and there should be instructions for doing it out on the net but it may require recompiling some packages with different dependancies. -Brady > But that yields the errors below (gnome-related). I admin this box > remotely using the command line, so I don't need anything related to > X11. Is there an easy way to remove all X related packages? Would that > provide a solution? I really just want to get apache reinstalled.