Re: removing packages

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>]

	Subject: removing packages
	Date: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:12:33PM -0500

In reply to:Brian Smith

Quoting Brian Smith(bsmith@webnetint.com):
> I mistakenly told the potatoe install routine to install everything on
> the 3 cd's I have, and I ran out of disk space (only have 1Gb).  I want
> to remove packages, do I use apt-remove or something like that ? I tried
> that and got an error due to a full hard disk, is there some manual
> process I will have to use to remove packages and physically delete
> them?
try 
apt-get --purge remove <package name>
   (apt-get --purge remove communicator*)
or
dpkg --purge <package*>
   (dpkg --purge netscape*)

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