On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 22:28 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > I think that, to remove all installed packages, a system administrator, > from the superuser level, needs to run something like > rm -r /
Or apt remove '*' Man page for apt says it accepts regex and globs for package specifiers. Other tools like apt-get and aptitude also allow some form of wildcard specification. I don't know which of the various packaging tools allow you to force uninstalling priority essential packages though, but the low level dpkg itself does, so you can come up with a shell one-liner to get a list of installed packages and remove them all. Of course, this would break at some point after removing a package with executable programs used by package scripts. ;-) -- Tixy