"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do you find a packagename that's pretty long? > > {0}:iggy:/root>dpkg -l | grep ^r > rc xfonts-biznet-iso-8859- 3.0.0-6 75 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2 > fonts for X servers.
There might be a more elegant solution but I've always used: dpkg --get-selections It doesn't give the version numbers but you don't need that to purge it. Gary