Sven Joachim wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> dpkg -l | grep ^rc > > > > I ran this command and found about 120 packages labelled "rc". Is there > > a command to remove all such packages in one swell foop? > > aptitude purge "~c"
And for apt-get command line folks such as myself:
Get just the list of 'rc' packages:
dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/{print$2}'
After review, remove that list:
dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/{print$2}')
> Back up your /etc directory before you do that!
Definitely! The purge action will remove files from /etc. If the
files are backed up then anything you do that later becomes known to
be a problem can be recovered from. (Hey, I was using that!) The
/etc directory on most systems is fairly small (20M on my machine)
making backup very quick and easy.
Bob
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