On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:17 +1000, James Polley wrote:
>>> "apt-get remove $PACKAGENAME" doesn't work for you?
>>>
>> The above won't remove a package if there are dependencies.
>
> Jeff and Ken said:
>
>> apt-get autoremove
>>>
>> You can also do autoremove in place of remove, to do it all at once. :-)
>>
>
> hat option is not listed in man dpkg or man apt-get.
It is on 50% of the (two) machines I tested - it's not on a dapper machine
but is on a hardy machine. I suspect you have something that's not hardy -
perhaps an older ubuntu, or one of the inf^H^H^Hother distributions?
>
> 'apt-get autoremove test'
> Invalid operation autoremove
>
> I'm using dpkg as I can cat a list of files into it.
Okay, so you have a list of files which you want to process. dpkg is still
the wrong tool for the job...
while read PACKAGENAME
do
apt-get remove ${PACKAGENAME}
done << $FILENAME
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