On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:22:53AM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Actually, on looking at dpkg -l, all 64 of these packages are marked as > 'rc' (remove requested, config files still present). Unfortunately, > none of those appear be removed by apt-get dselect-upgrade. That > command wants to remove three OTHER packages, upgrade one package, and > install 74 NEW packages, none of which I need, want, or have any > connection with the one package (fetchmail) being upgraded. Many of them > are KDE packages (I use only a very few kde packages and DO NOT run the > DE). Others are things like portmap (which I DO NOT want), bochs-doc (I > purged bochs without using it), a bunch of libs and other things that I > do not need.
Apparently dselect thinks that you *do* want this. If you disagree then fire up dselect and fix things there. > All in all, apt-get dselect-update does NOT seem to remove those > packages, or do anything else that I want. So is there some other way > that will completely remove those packages (including thier config > files) without installing a ton of stuff that I do not want, or need? Well, what Chris Boot wrote earlier in this thread should work: dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1 | xargs dpkg --purge At least it worked for me. -- 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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