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Re: aptitude or apt-get: how to use the jolly character?



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On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:24:23PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Suppose that I want to remove all the packages beginning with `texlive', that
> are a lot in my system.
> 
> If I do: `aptitude purge texlive*', the system complains that no package has
> that name.
> 
> How to do then?

aptitude -s purge ~ntexlive

Should show you some good results.  -s will simulate what would happen. 
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Daryl Styrk
Naples, FL USA
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