On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:54:24AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:53:06PM -0400, Charles Kroeger > <ckro...@frankensteinface.com> was heard to say: > > Thanks for that suggestion but I don't use aptitude..I use apt, dpkg, and > > smartpm. > > > > dpkg -P <package> works but it would seem each package must be listed > > seperately. Is there a command that gets all the unpurged stuff in one go, > > like your suggestion above with apititude? > > You could always try... > > aptitude --disable-columns -F '%p' search '~c' | xargs dpkg --purge > > ;-)
What is the advantage of above over aptitude purge '~c' After all we use nice tool called aptitude :-) Unless some --force option is used with dpkg, they do the same. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
