somebody here knows the correct answer to this: i installed a meta-package that brought in a bunch of stuff. turns out, i don't like it and want to remove it and all its demonspawn. is there a command that uses the meta-package to uninstall what it installed?
thanks.
Am Samstag, 1. September 2018 schrieb dep:
somebody here knows the correct answer to this: i installed a meta-package that brought in a bunch of stuff. turns out, i don't like it and want to remove it and all its demonspawn. is there a command that uses the meta-package to uninstall what it installed?
thanks.
usually "aptitude purge THEMETAPACKAGE" should remove all depending packages.
On 9/1/18 11:08 AM, dep wrote:
somebody here knows the correct answer to this: i installed a meta-package that brought in a bunch of stuff. turns out, i don't like it and want to remove it and all its demonspawn. is there a command that uses the meta-package to uninstall what it installed?
thanks.
There are a 3 ways that I can think of:
One use synaptic to remove the main package and rest will be listed as auto-remove.
Two remove the main package and then run deborphan/gtkorphan to clean up the rest.
Three install and run package 'upgrade-system'.
To bad I can't run these tools on my head.
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