- aptitude, deity. Maybe even tasksel, though that's not exactly what
you want. Personally, I just use apt-{get,cache}.
- You could write a script to do that. Get the package's dependencies
and try to remove them with dpkg. That will fail when some other package
depends on the one you are trying to uninstall. It's something ugly, but
I can't think of another way.
- dpkg -P|--purge, maybe?
On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 00:37, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a few questions about the Install system:
>
> - I read that there are other frontends to apt tha dselect. Is there a list
> with the official methods using apt (with official i mean packages that are
> supplied with the distri)
>
> - Is there a way to remove packages cleanly with apt? With cleanly I mean
> that when a package is removed also all packages wich the main package depends
> on and wich have no other depenceies are also removed? That would be cool to
> avoid "dead" packages on a system.
>
> - Is there a way to force dpkg to delete non empty folders and modified
> files on package removal?
>
> cheers,
> Raffaele
>
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