apt-get takes regular expressions, so a 'apt-get --purge remove "helix*"' should nuke everything that has the string 'helix' in its name. Note that apt-get does a substring match with the package name, so 'helix*' will be matched no matter where in the name it is. Also note, that you need the quotes around 'helix*', so you the asterisk i doesn't get eaten by bash.
HTH, j On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 01:14:04PM -0500, Scott Patterson wrote: > I'm interested in following the Woody releases of GNOME instead of Helix > Code's. > Problem is, how do I remove ALL the Helix Code packages. Seeing they all have > "helix" in their package name, a simple script should easily do this. Too bad > I'm not that familiar with dpkg and apt. Going manually through each package > is > not preferable! > > Scott > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
