[Tfug] apt-get undo

Glen Pfeiffer glen at thepfeiffers.net
Sat Aug 30 13:52:02 MST 2008


On [30/08/08 11:26 -0700] johngalt1 wrote:
>After doing an apt-get install, I realized a lot more than
>the package specified was installed. How would you back off
>the changes?

Are you familiar with aptitude's ability to remove all automatically 
installed dependencies? This functionality has been added to apt-get in 
testing, but it's not there in etch so you'll need to use aptitude 
instead. Try 'aptitude purge <package-name>'.

-- 
Glen





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