Re: Unidentified subject!

[Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr>]

Clive Menzies wrote:

On (05/10/06 03:34), George Adamides wrote:
  

hi how do i uninstall a package? for example i have mysql4 and i want
to remove it from my system. how do go about doing that?

    

 as root or sudo:

# aptitude purge mysql4

see man aptitude

Regards

Clive

  

Since you seem to be a new by, you must be warn to use either aptitude or apt-get, but do not mix them, they don't work the same way, and you will get a mess.
Thierry
PS: Older users, dont start a war over aptitude or apt-get, it's not the point for a newcomer!! ;-)