Hey hey. On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:57 +1000, Michael Lake 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.
It should. What version of debian / apt do you have? To pick an example at random: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% sudo apt-get remove compiz-core Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libgnome-compiz-manager0 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: compiz compiz-core compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-gnome compiz-plugins gnome-compiz-manager 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 19.7MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n > Jeff and Ken said: > >> apt-get autoremove > > You can also do autoremove in place of remove, to do it all at once. :-) > > That option is not listed in man dpkg or man apt-get. > 'apt-get autoremove test' > Invalid operation autoremove Sounding more and more like you've got a fairly old debian. You can try using the apt-rdepends tool to list dependencies. If it's not available, I'd probably just use dpkg to get a list of dependencies and then do exactly what you're doing now. Ugh. :-) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
