Hi, On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Colin Walters wrote:
> The output format of dpkg -l is terrible. Many package names exceed > the measly 16 characters allotted. Many, many times when trying to > remove packages that have long strings of dependencies, 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. My understanding of what you _want_ to do is to remove netscape, and possibly all that depends on netscape. What you _could_ do is: 1. Start dselect; 2. Choose "Select"; 3. Type "/netscape"; 4. If this does not bring you to the flavor/version of netscape that you have installed and want to remove then simply hit the "\" key until you get there; 5. Type "-" or hit the [delete] key; 6. Dselect will enter dependency/conflict resolution mode, you are shown a list of packages relating through dependencies or conflicts. if all is right, dselect has already selected all depending packages for removal; 7. Hit the [enter] key to leave dependency/conflict resolution mode; 8. Hit the [enter] key to leave selection mode; 9. Choose "Remove"; 10.Choose "Quit". Everybody seems to forget what a great tool dselect still is, especially when using apt as "dselect method". Cheers, Joost
