Peter Hardy wrote:
Hey hey.
On Wed, Michael Lake wrote:
"apt-get remove $PACKAGENAME" doesn't work for you?
The above won't remove a package if there are dependencies.
It should. What version of debian / apt do you have?
To pick an example at random:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% sudo apt-get remove compiz-core
Ah, maybe the difference is that in my case its an upsteam dependency (something
depends on what I want to remove) whereas in the example above its a downsteam
dependency (what I want to remove depends on something).
This is what I get:
# cat installed.packages | grep evol | cut -f1
evolution-common
evolution-data-server
evolution-data-server-common
evolution-webcal
#
# cat installed.packages | grep evol | cut -f1 | xargs dpkg -P
(Reading database ... 79929 files and directories currently installed.)
Would remove or purge evolution-common ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of evolution-data-server: ekiga depends on
evolution-data-server.
dpkg: error processing evolution-data-server (--purge):
dependency problems - not removing
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of evolution-data-server-common:
evolution-data-server depends on evolution-data-server-common (= 1.6.3-5etch1).
dpkg: error processing evolution-data-server-common (--purge):
dependency problems - not removing
Would remove or purge evolution-webcal ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
evolution-data-server
evolution-data-server-common
#
I'm using Debian version 4.0
'apt-get autoremove test'
Invalid operation autoremove
Sounding more and more like you've got a fairly old debian. You can try
using the apt-rdepends tool to list dependencies. If it's not available,
I'd probably just use dpkg to get a list of dependencies and then do
exactly what you're doing now.
Ugh. :-)
Maybe I'll just use the Ugh method.
I am making up a virtual Debian system using Xen.
I tarballed up my Debian etch and copied it to a new xen instance with a blank
filesystem and booted into it and I'm removing all packages that I don't need.
I'm starting therefore with a desktop distro and cutting it down. I couldn't start
with a minimal Debian install via netboot or dbootstrap as this instance is under
Centos and I couldn't get dbootstrap to compile under Centos.
Mike
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