On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 12:44:10AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been discussed extensively before on > debian-devel, but a quick search of the mailing list archives didn't > turn up anything, so here goes:
There are open bugs against dpkg on this, IIRC. > I have > to grep /var/lib/dpkg/status, and remove things by hand, when > what I really want to do is dpkg -l '*netscape*' | xargs dpkg --purge. Simple: grep-status -Pe '.*netscape.*' | grep-dctrl -FStatus -sPackage -n \ 'install ok installed' | xargs dpkg --purge grep-status and grep-dctrl are in package grep-dctrl. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% "" (John Cage)
