Re: How do you remove Helix GNOME
This doesn't work because helix is in the version number, not the package
name (except for about 3 packages). The matching seems only to match the
package name.
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
> apt-get takes regular expressions, so a 'apt-get --purge remove "helix*"'
> should nuke everything that has the string 'helix' in its name.
> Note that apt-get does a substring match with the package name,
> so 'helix*' will be matched no matter where in the name it is.
> Also note, that you need the quotes around 'helix*', so you the asterisk i
> doesn't get eaten by bash.
>
> HTH,
> j
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 01:14:04PM -0500, Scott Patterson wrote:
> > I'm interested in following the Woody releases of GNOME instead of Helix Code's.
> > Problem is, how do I remove ALL the Helix Code packages. Seeing they all have
> > "helix" in their package name, a simple script should easily do this. Too bad
> > I'm not that familiar with dpkg and apt. Going manually through each package is
> > not preferable!
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
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