Re: Finding a package name?

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

Thus spake Colin Watson (cjw44@flatline.org.uk):
> 
> >Works well enough for me.  Thanks,  now I just wish I could
> >do a "dpkg -P -a" but that doesn't work.
> 
> Er, if you want to purge all your packages, why not just put /home
> somewhere safe and reformat? :)
> 

I was refering to something cleaner than:

dpkg -P `dpkg -l | grep ^r | awk {'print $2'}`

Robert


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