On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:11:47 +0000, T o n g ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know that aptitude gui interface can show all those obsolete packages
> by sections. my questions are:
>
> - how can I tag all obsolete packages in a section, then remove them?
> - how can I get such obsolete packages list on command line?
To answer just that last question:
aptitude search ?obsolete
or
aptitude search ~o
To answer the first question, probably *something* like this:
for file in `aptitude search ~o | cut -b 5- | awk '{print $1}'`; do aptitude
remove $file; done
although I am sure there are neater, more elegant solutions.
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