Mike McClain([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, > > upgraded, removed. > > > > How does one clean up this mess conveniently? > > If these leftovers are due to packages removed but not purged, this > will tell you: > grep -B1 "Status: deinstall ok config-files" /var/lib/dpkg/status \ > | grep "Pac" | cut -d" " -f2 > and > for f in $( the above line ); do dpkg -P $f; done > will clean up.
Thanks for this jewel Mike! I am still trying to grok the " -f2. Wayne -- Computer and car salesmen differ in that the latter know when they are lying. _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
