On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Kussh Singh <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there any easy way to get the description of all packages listed in a
> file which contains the names of all such packages?
>
>
http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/browse_thread/thread/15f45f7d84ad923c#




> eg.
> i used
> sudo dpkg --get-selections >installed-software
>
> to make a list of all installed software packages on my system
> However I want to remove some of them in batch mode (from the command line)
> instead of by using synaptic and deleting them one by one which is a
> cumbersome process.  So the description of such packages is needed in
> another file containing a subset of names of packages likely to be removed.
>
> How can this be done ?
>
> Kussh
>
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You are not clear. Please explain.
One can always delete from command line
apt-get remove pk1 pk2 pk3 .........


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