On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:29:41AM +0100, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> > 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?
[snip]
> 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.
For instance, you could do
$ aptitude remove "~o~sSECTION"
or just push "-" on the header of the group if you're using the
curses interface.
Daniel
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