This doesn't work because helix is in the version number, not the package
name (except for about 3 packages). The matching seems only to match the
package name.
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
apt-get takes regular expressions, so a 'apt-get --purge remove helix*'
should nuke
I'm interested in following the Woody releases of GNOME instead of Helix Code's.
Problem is, how do I remove ALL the Helix Code packages. Seeing they all have
helix in their package name, a simple script should easily do this. Too bad
I'm not that familiar with dpkg and apt. Going manually through
apt-get takes regular expressions, so a 'apt-get --purge remove helix*'
should nuke everything that has the string 'helix' in its name.
Note that apt-get does a substring match with the package name,
so 'helix*' will be matched no matter where in the name it is.
Also note, that you need the
3 matches
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