Re: dpkg status (deinstall) question (SOLVED)

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Maurits van Rees <maurits@vanrees.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:20:29AM +0100, Chris Boot wrote:
>
> > Maurits van Rees wrote:
> >
> > > So how *do* you purge packages that are already removed? The manual
> > > way would be to just fire up dselect, hunt down those packages and
> > > press underscore to select them for purging. Is there another more
> > > automated way?
> >
> > Maybe:
> >
> > dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1 | xargs dpkg -P
>
>
> Ah yes, that works like a charm. Thanks Chris!

That works for me too.  Thanks, Chris, and you, too, Maurits.  You 
solved this problem between yourselves before any of your postings got 
back to me through the digest.

I really hate it when I get answers in one digest to a question that I 
dont see until two digests later.  The postings that solved this came in 
that way for me -- all out of order.

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Marc Shapiro
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