Re: source code installation

On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 05:53:47PM +1000, jupiter.hce@gmail.com wrote:

> > With aptitude you can do searches like this:
> >
> > aptitude search '~i(~sgames|~Ggame)'
> >
> > This will list all installed (~i) packages which belong to the "games"
> > section (~sgames) or (|) which have the string "game" in one of their
> > debtags (~Ggame).
> >
> > You can uninstall all these packages with one fell blow by replacing
> > "search" with "remove" in the command above. If you want to have a bit

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> > more control over what is going on then you can use aptitude in

Those packages are all installed (i) automatically (A) as dependencies to other packages (that's why I don't like Gnome). If you try to remove them aptitude should complain about broken packages and look for solutions. Maybe there is a solution to remove some by getting rid of some Gnome metapackage.

> I guess the next command I should run to remove all games are following.
> Are they correct?
>
> aptitude purge $(gnome-about)
> aptitude purge $(gnome-applets)
> aptitude purge $(gnome-games)
> aptitude purge $(gnome-games-data)
> aptitude purge $(wodim)
> aptitude purge $(xbase-clients)

No, you need 'aptitude purge packagename' or you can (try to) do it in one blow with Florian's trick. But at least wodim and xbase-clients you DON'T want removed anyway. Look at the description for the reasons ;) (Tip: 'aptitude show wodim' for the full info.)

Regards,
Andrei

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