Re: help in purging old packages

2015-01-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 09 ian 15, 16:54:39, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 11:23:17AM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various > >reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still > >present fro

Re: help in purging old packages

2015-01-11 Thread lina
I used to :/usr/lib$ ls -1 | sort and used eyes to pick up these packages to purge. On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Comer Duncan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various reasons > now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still prese

Re: help in purging old packages

2015-01-10 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/10/15, Bob Proulx wrote: > > If you are an apt-get command line person (like I am) instead of the > aptitude methods already mentioned then you can use apt-show-versions > to show you what is installed but no longer has an install candidate. > > apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate > > Pack

Re: help in purging old packages

2015-01-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Comer Duncan wrote: > I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various reasons > now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still present from > etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how can I purge all > such packages using dpkg? I can not seem t

Re: help in purging old packages

2015-01-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/01/15 11:23 AM, Comer Duncan wrote: Hi, I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still present from etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how can I purge all such packages using

Re: help in purging old packages

2015-01-09 Thread Hans
> If you want to purge all packages which have been uninstalled but for > which configuration remains: aptitude purge ?config-files > > If you want to purge all packages which are installed but which no > longer have a candidate in debian: aptitude purge ?obsolete > > If you want to purge all pa

Re: help in purging old packages

2015-01-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 11:23:17AM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: >Hi, > >I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various >reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still >present from etch, lenny, and squeeze.  What I would like to know is ho