Re: I have instaledl too many packages
On Friday 04 May 2001 19:14, Ben Collins wrote:
> 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)
a slightly crude but quicker way to do it:
apt-get remove nameofapp*
which will list everything containing "nameofapp" and ask if you want it
removed. this way you'll also get the package name.
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