Re: I have instaledl too many packages

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:47:39AM +0800, fg007@mail1.sjtu.edu.cn wrote:
> hi,all
>   I am a debian newbie.I have installed too may packages.
>   I  want to use 'dselect' to delete some,but show many errors
>   I want to use 'apt-get remove filename' but not know exactly the
>   filename,and there are so many package to remove.
>   How can I  reinstall but keep the smallest base system  so that I
>   not need to reboot and can use apt-get,deselect,netconfig etc.

I regularly do this:

1. dpkg -l > package.list

2. less package.list (find packages you want to remove)

3. apt-get remove <pkgs>

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 as needed (I usually just remove 4 or 5 packages
   at a time)

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