On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 05:53:47PM +1000, jupiter.hce@gmail.com wrote: > > With aptitude you can do searches like this: > > > > aptitude search '~i(~sgames|~Ggame)' > > > > This will list all installed (~i) packages which belong to the "games" > > section (~sgames) or (|) which have the string "game" in one of their > > debtags (~Ggame). > > > > You can uninstall all these packages with one fell blow by replacing > > "search" with "remove" in the command above. If you want to have a bit ----^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > more control over what is going on then you can use aptitude in > > interactive mode, look at "Installed Packages > games" and decide > > yourself which ones you want to remove. > > I've also tried to run aptitude search '~i(~sgames|~Ggame)' and got > following list: > i A gnome-about - The GNOME about box > i A gnome-applets - Various applets for GNOME 2 panel - > binary > i A gnome-games - games for the GNOME desktop > i A gnome-games-data - data files for the GNOME games > i A wodim - command line CD/DVD writing tool > i A xbase-clients - miscellaneous X clients Those packages are all installed (i) automatically (A) as dependencies to other packages (that's why I don't like Gnome). If you try to remove them aptitude should complain about broken packages and look for solutions. Maybe there is a solution to remove some by getting rid of some Gnome metapackage. > I guess the next command I should run to remove all games are following. > Are they correct? > > aptitude purge $(gnome-about) > aptitude purge $(gnome-applets) > aptitude purge $(gnome-games) > aptitude purge $(gnome-games-data) > aptitude purge $(wodim) > aptitude purge $(xbase-clients) No, you need 'aptitude purge packagename' or you can (try to) do it in one blow with Florian's trick. But at least wodim and xbase-clients you DON'T want removed anyway. Look at the description for the reasons ;) (Tip: 'aptitude show wodim' for the full info.) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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