"Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rnd-consulting.com> 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