Darxus on Fri, 13 Jul 2001 00:50:04 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] apt-get / dpkg question


On 07/12, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> Yup, kinda figured. It's the back-out that's got me stumped.

dpkg -r `dpkg -l '*ximian*' | cut -d' ' -f3 | tail -n +6`

- would remove all packages with "ximian" in the name.  You'd probably have
to make use of --force.

Not that I'm certain this would be a good thing :)
If it's nothing critical, you should be able to forceably remove them all,
then do something like an "apt-get -f install" to resolve things.

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