On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015...@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 -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog