Re: apt-get

[Howard Young <howard.young@freeola.net>]

looking through the list I now see that may be quite possible to achieve 
what I wanted using, some sort of match priority command and piping it 
back into the remove command.

thank you very much

Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:06:39AM +0100, Howard Young wrote:
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> > I did not find a list for APT so am asking here.
> >
> > Is it possible to
> > apt-get remove package --andsuggestedpackages
> > and to do the opposite
> > apt-get install package --andsuggestedpackages
> >
> > using the original lists rather than any text matches.
> >     
>
> This is debian-user topic.
>
> aptitude with regrex is the way to play APT with complex things.
>
> I am updating debian-reference and related contents are at:
>  http://wiki.debian.org/DRPackage#head-e533af3e7924a3fb896dbeb6816432fda76670f2
>
> Osamu
>
>
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