On Vi, 09 ian 15, 16:54:39, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 11:23:17AM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various > > reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still > > present from etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how > > can I purge all such packages using dpkg? I can not seem to find how to > > select just those old packages for purging. Can those who know about this > > please help? aptitude search '?narrow(?installed,?not(?archive(^stable$)))'
If you are satisfied with the result replace 'search' with 'purge'. > If you want to purge all packages which are installed and installable, > but where the version is the same as in an earlier release... that's > probably going to need some scripting :) I must be misunderstanding something, but why would anyone want to remove those? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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