On Friday 04 May 2001 19:14, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:47:39AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi,all > > I am a debian newbie.I have installed too may packages. > > I want to use 'dselect' to delete some,but show many errors > > I want to use 'apt-get remove filename' but not know exactly the > > filename,and there are so many package to remove. > > How can I reinstall but keep the smallest base system so that I > > not need to reboot and can use apt-get,deselect,netconfig etc. > > I regularly do this: > > 1. dpkg -l > package.list > > 2. less package.list (find packages you want to remove) > > 3. apt-get remove <pkgs> > > 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 as needed (I usually just remove 4 or 5 packages > at a time)
a slightly crude but quicker way to do it: apt-get remove nameofapp* which will list everything containing "nameofapp" and ask if you want it removed. this way you'll also get the package name.
