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Commands tagged aptitude

Terminal - Commands tagged aptitude - 10 results

aptitude remove ?and(~i~nlinux-(im|he) ?not(~n`uname -r`))

2010-06-11 22:57:09

User: dbbolton

Tags: Debian Linux kernel aptitude

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Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

A little aptitude magic. Note: this will remove images AND headers. If you just want to remove images: aptitude remove ?and(~i~nlinux-im ?not(~n`uname -r`))

I used this in zsh without any problems. I'm not sure how other shells will interpret some of the special characters used in the aptitude search terms. Use -s to simulate.

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aptitude purge linux-image | grep ^i | grep -v $(uname -r)

2010-06-11 22:20:42

User: lgallardo

Functions: grep uname

Tags: Debian Linux perl kernel aptitude

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Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

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perl -e 'chomp($k=`uname -r`); for (</boot/vm*>) {s/^.*vmlinuz-($k)?//; $l.="linux-image-$_ ";} system "aptitude remove $l";'

2010-06-10 22:16:47

User: dbbolton

Functions: perl

Tags: Debian Linux perl kernel aptitude

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Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

TIMTOWTDI

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aptitude remove $(dpkg -l|egrep '^ii linux-(im|he)'|awk '{print $2}'|grep -v `uname -r`)

2010-06-10 21:23:00

User: dbbolton

Functions: awk egrep grep

Tags: Debian Linux awk grep kernel dpkg aptitude

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Remove all unused kernels with apt-get

This should do the same thing and is about 70 chars shorter.

aptitude keep-all

2010-04-20 09:24:20

User: dooblem

Tags: Debian dpkg aptitude

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Cancel all aptitude scheduled actions

Very handy if you have done a package selection mistake in aptitude.

Note that it's better to do a Ctrl+U (undo) in aptitude if possible, because the keep-all will clear some package states (like the 'hold' state).

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aptitude show packages_name

2009-12-07 19:27:33

User: metalx1000

Tags: aptitude

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Show the meta information on a package (dependency , statuts ..) on debian derivative distro

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aptitude search NAME

2009-11-10 11:23:18

User: CafeNinja

Tags: apt apt-get aptitude

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Search for available software on a debian package system (Ubuntu)

The legend in the first column:

i = installed

p = installable

aptitude remove $(deborphan)

2009-05-08 18:51:51

User: P17

Tags: aptitude

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Remove unused libs/packages

deborphan(1) must be installed.

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dpkg-query -l| grep -v "ii " | grep "rc " | awk '{print $2" "}' | tr -d "\n" | xargs aptitude purge -y

2009-04-28 19:25:53

User: thepicard

Functions: awk grep tr xargs

Tags: Debian awk xargs grep aptitude dpkg-query tr

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remove unneeded configuration files in debian

This will, for an application that has already been removed but had its configuration left behind, purge that configuration from the system. To test it out first, you can remove the last -y, and it will show you what it will purge without actually doing it. I mean it never hurts to check first, "just in case." ;)

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sudo aptitude purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | awk '{print $1}'`

2009-04-28 11:44:04

User: kelevra

Functions: awk grep sudo

Tags: Debian aptitude

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Purge configuration files of removed packages on debian based systems

Purge all configuration files of removed packages