Public bug reported:
The awesome apt has a some wonderful tips on their EXAMPLES section
(printed below). The choice of name to "garbage" might not have been the
best but the function is extremely useful.
$ man apt-patterns | sed '/EXAMPLES/,/^[^ ]/!d;/^[^ ]/d'
apt remove ?garbage
Remove all packages that are automatically installed and no longer
needed -
same as apt autoremove
apt purge ?config-files
Purge all packages that only have configuration files left
apt list '~i !~M (~slibs|~sperl|~spython)'
List all manually-installed packages in sections matching libs,
perl, or
python.
Lets mark a package as automatically installed, and use the examples.
$ sudo apt-mark auto shotwell
shotwell set to automatically installed.
$ sudo apt remove ?garbage
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libraw20 shotwell shotwell-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ sudo apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libraw20 shotwell shotwell-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 9.806 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] N
Abort.
Apt-patterns works as it should everywhere else, as far as I can see, it
works wonders with ie `apt list '~g|~c'` and many other applications. I
used `apt purge '~g|~c'` successfully in Ubuntu 20.04 for years, so I
feel this is a regression.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: apt 2.4.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-52.58-generic 5.15.60
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-52-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Nov 6 10:57:52 2022
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-03-26 (224 days ago)
** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug jammy wayland-session
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1995790
Title:
apt-patterns does not work as described in man pages
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
The awesome apt has a some wonderful tips on their EXAMPLES section
(printed below). The choice of name to "garbage" might not have been
the best but the function is extremely useful.
$ man apt-patterns | sed '/EXAMPLES/,/^[^ ]/!d;/^[^ ]/d'
apt remove ?garbage
Remove all packages that are automatically installed and no longer
needed -
same as apt autoremove
apt purge ?config-files
Purge all packages that only have configuration files left
apt list '~i !~M (~slibs|~sperl|~spython)'
List all manually-installed packages in sections matching libs,
perl, or
python.
Lets mark a package as automatically installed, and use the examples.
$ sudo apt-mark auto shotwell
shotwell set to automatically installed.
$ sudo apt remove ?garbage
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
libraw20 shotwell shotwell-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ sudo apt autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libraw20 shotwell shotwell-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 9.806 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] N
Abort.
Apt-patterns works as it should everywhere else, as far as I can see,
it works wonders with ie `apt list '~g|~c'` and many other
applications. I used `apt purge '~g|~c'` successfully in Ubuntu 20.04
for years, so I feel this is a regression.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: apt 2.4.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-52.58-generic 5.15.60
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-52-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Nov 6 10:57:52 2022
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-03-26 (224 days ago)
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