On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:20:29AM +0100, Chris Boot wrote: > Maurits van Rees wrote: > >So how *do* you purge packages that are already removed? The manual > >way would be to just fire up dselect, hunt down those packages and > >press underscore to select them for purging. Is there another more > >automated way? > > > Maybe: > > dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1 | xargs dpkg -P
Ah yes, that works like a charm. Thanks Chris! -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
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