On 2015-09-17 at 06:34, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Himanshu Shekhar > <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> wrote: > >> Hey!... I made it. >> I selected all packages with name or description containing lxde from >> synaptic and marked them for complete removal. >> Now, the task is done and I got what I wanted. >> Thanks :) > > There is a simpler way to remove all packages whose name matches a > regular expression. For example, in your case, I think you could do > something like > > % apt-show-versions -r kde | cut -f1 -d':' > pkg_list.txt > % xargs -a pkg_list.txt sudo apt-get remove If I'm not mistaken, there's an even easier way: If 'apt-get install' or 'apt-get remove' doesn't see a package matching the requested name, and the requested name contains one of a few specific characters (see the man page), it treats the requested name as a regular expression to be matched against the complete package list. Therefore, apt-get remove ".*lxde.*" would probably have worked in this case. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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