On Sun July 14 2019 20:02:27 Felix Miata wrote:
Mike Bird composed on 2019-07-14 19:28 (UTC-0700):
Felix Miata wrote:
Is it normal for non-iis not to be reduced to 0?
How to get rid of the
numerous rcs?
dpkg --purge ...
# dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | wc -l
125
# dpkg --purge ...
dpkg: error: --purge needs a valid package name but '...' is not: illegal
package name in specifier '...': must start with an alphanumeric character
You can either manually list the non-ii packages there or use some bash/awk
magic.
I'm not going to publish a solution that purges a huge number of packages
which someone might try ten years hence and do themselves a lot of harm.
--Mike