On Thu,18.Sep.08, 22:42:47, Sven Joachim wrote:What about 'aptitude purge ~c'?
> On 2008-09-18 22:18 +0200, Jack Schneider wrote:
>
> > Just noticed that the results of doing [dpkg --get-selections >
> > Packages] gives me a list which includes-- 194 packages marked for
> > "deinstall'. What's the best tool to clean this up, and how to do it??
>
> If you want to purge all of them, do the following:
>
> # aptitude purge $(dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall$ | cut -f1)
Regards,
Andrei
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