Re: Removing deb-multimedia pkgs w/o removing everything

[Dmitriy Matrosov <sgf.dma@gmail.com>]

On 09/17/12 13:05, Dmitriy Matrosov wrote:
> [1]: Though, note, that (/var/lib/dpkg/status) file will be listed in
> `apt-cache showpkg` output even for uninstalled packages, which config 
> files
> still present. E.g.  for status, like:
>
>     Status: deinstall ok config-files
Just want to add: if you need to exclude these packages (like ones with 
status
'deinstall ok config-files') you may do this by filtering dpkg-query 
output, like so

$ dpkg-query -Wf '${Package}\t${Status}\n' | sed -ne '/install ok 
installed/s/\t.*//p'