Sven Joachim wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> dpkg -l | grep ^rc > > > > I ran this command and found about 120 packages labelled "rc". Is there > > a command to remove all such packages in one swell foop? > > aptitude purge "~c"
And for apt-get command line folks such as myself: Get just the list of 'rc' packages: dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/{print$2}' After review, remove that list: dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/{print$2}') > Back up your /etc directory before you do that! Definitely! The purge action will remove files from /etc. If the files are backed up then anything you do that later becomes known to be a problem can be recovered from. (Hey, I was using that!) The /etc directory on most systems is fairly small (20M on my machine) making backup very quick and easy. Bob
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