[Tfug] apt-get undo

[Jeffry Johnston]

If all else fails, there should also be a log of recent package
installs, removals, etc.  I guess someplace in /var/log?

Jeff

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net> wrote:
> 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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