Re: Best methods?

2008-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,20.Sep.08, 08:59:47, Osamu Aoki wrote: You can alternatively use aptitude interactive mode. Enter l to popup Enter the new package tree limit: Then enter ~c You get interactive session to deal with these packages so you are less likely to overdo this removal. True, but is

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:49:04 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,20.Sep.08, 08:59:47, Osamu Aoki wrote: You can alternatively use aptitude interactive mode. Enter l to popup Enter the new package tree limit: Then enter ~c You get interactive session to deal with these

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,20.Sep.08, 11:53:09, Florian Kulzer wrote: If you press a certain action key on a category headline then the action is applied to all packages listed thereunder. In the present example, Wow, I didn't know about this one. Thanks a lot, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:25:19AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,18.Sep.08, 23:02:35, Sven Joachim wrote: What about 'aptitude purge ~c'? Indeed that's easier, thanks. With the caveat that I had to use ~c, since otherwise zsh wants to expand ~c to a username: zsh: no such

Best methods?

2008-09-18 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, all Just noticed that the results of doing [dpkg --get-selections Packages] gives me a list which includes-- 194 packages marked for deinstall'. What's the best tool to clean this up, and how to do it?? TIA, Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,18.Sep.08, 15:18:37, Jack Schneider wrote: Hi, all Just noticed that the results of doing [dpkg --get-selections Packages] gives me a list which includes-- 194 packages marked for deinstall'. What's the best tool to clean this up, and how to do it?? Don't ever ask what the

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-09-18 22:18 +0200, Jack Schneider wrote: Just noticed that the results of doing [dpkg --get-selections Packages] gives me a list which includes-- 194 packages marked for deinstall'. What's the best tool to clean this up, and how to do it?? If you want to purge all of them, do the

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-09-18 22:34 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,18.Sep.08, 15:18:37, Jack Schneider wrote: Hi, all Just noticed that the results of doing [dpkg --get-selections Packages] gives me a list which includes-- 194 packages marked for deinstall'. What's the best tool to clean this

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,18.Sep.08, 22:42:47, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-09-18 22:18 +0200, Jack Schneider wrote: Just noticed that the results of doing [dpkg --get-selections Packages] gives me a list which includes-- 194 packages marked for deinstall'. What's the best tool to clean this up, and how

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-18 Thread M.Reza Qurbani
wow, cool, what '~c' means? On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Thu,18.Sep.08, 22:42:47, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-09-18 22:18 +0200, Jack Schneider wrote: Just noticed that the results of doing [dpkg --get-selections Packages] gives me a

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-09-18 22:55 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,18.Sep.08, 22:42:47, Sven Joachim wrote: # aptitude purge $(dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall$ | cut -f1) What about 'aptitude purge ~c'? Indeed that's easier, thanks. With the caveat that I had to use ~c, since otherwise zsh

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,19.Sep.08, 01:32:35, M.Reza Qurbani wrote: wow, cool, what '~c' means? $ grep -A2 '~c' /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README |?config-files|~c |Select packages that were | | ||removed but not purged.|

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,18.Sep.08, 23:02:35, Sven Joachim wrote: What about 'aptitude purge ~c'? Indeed that's easier, thanks. With the caveat that I had to use ~c, since otherwise zsh wants to expand ~c to a username: zsh: no such user or named directory: c And the long version '?config-files'?

Re: Best methods?

2008-09-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:44:56 +0200 Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-09-18 22:34 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu,18.Sep.08, 15:18:37, Jack Schneider wrote: Hi, all Just noticed that the results of doing [dpkg --get-selections Packages] gives me a list which