Commands tagged aptitude (30)
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also search with aptitude search '~c'
18aptitude purge '~c' -
Purge all configuration files of removed packages Show Sample Output
13sudo aptitude purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | awk '{print $1}'` -
This should do the same thing and is about 70 chars shorter. Show Sample Output
8aptitude remove $(dpkg -l|egrep '^ii linux-(im|he)'|awk '{print $2}'|grep -v `uname -r`) -
Note the double space: "...^ii␣␣linux-image-2..." Like 5813, but fixes two bugs: [1]This leaves the meta-packages 'linux-headers-generic' and 'linux-image-generic' alone so that automatic upgrades work correctly in the future. [2]Kernels newer than the currently running one are left alone (this can happen if you didn't reboot after installing a new kernel). I'm bummed that this took 228 characters. I'd like to see a simpler version. Show Sample Output
7aptitude remove $(dpkg -l|awk '/^ii linux-image-2/{print $2}'|sed 's/linux-image-//'|awk -v v=`uname -r` 'v>$0'|sed 's/-generic//'|awk '{printf("linux-headers-%s\nlinux-headers-%s-generic\nlinux-image-%s-generic\n",$0,$0,$0)}') -
3dpkg -l
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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.
2aptitude remove ?and(~i~nlinux-(im|he) ?not(~n`uname -r`)) -
2dpkg -l | grep ^rc | awk '{print $2}' | xargs dpkg -P
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This has been my "sysupgrade" alias since ca. 2006, first used on Debian Sid, then Sabayon, and it still does its duty on Mint nowadays without breaking stuff.
2sudo sh -c "aptitude update; aptitude -DrVWZ full-upgrade; aptitude autoclean; exit" -
Very handy if you have done a package selection mistake in aptitude. Note that it's better to do a Ctrl+U (undo) in aptitude if possible, because the keep-all will clear some package states (like the 'hold' state).
1aptitude keep-all -
TIMTOWTDI
1perl -e 'chomp($k=`uname -r`); for (</boot/vm*>) {s/^.*vmlinuz-($k)?//; $l.="linux-image-$_ ";} system "aptitude remove $l";' -
Replace PACKAGE with desired package name. Found here: http://mikebeach.org/2011/04/undo-apt-get-build-dep/
1sudo aptitude markauto $(apt-cache showsrc PACKAGE | grep Build-Depends | perl -p -e 's/(?:[\[(].+?[\])]|Build-Depends:|,|\|)//g') -
locating packages held back, such as with "aptitude hold "
1aptitude search ~ahold -
Shows the packages installed on your system that are recomemnded by other packages. You should remove these packages. Show Sample Output
1aptitude search '?and( ?automatic(?reverse-recommends(?installed)), ?not(?automatic(?reverse-depends(?installed))) )' -
Could be dangerous, if you have many packages all beginning with 'foo' or 'bar'. This will easily remove them all from your system.
1aptitude --purge remove ~i^foo ~i^bar -
deborphan(1) must be installed.
0aptitude remove $(deborphan) -
Lists all packages in "rc" state and purge them one at a time.
0dpkg -l | grep ^rc | cut -d' ' -f3 | xargs dpkg -P -
This is the best way I have found to search out an application when I am not sure the title. Grep is just to remove anything that does not contain the term in the title or short description (lots of things might include the search term in the description, such as libraries used by the application) Show Sample Output
0aptitude search ~d "irc client"|grep -i "irc client" -
since awk was already there one can use it instead of the 2 greps. might not be faster, but fast enough
0apt-get remove $(dpkg -l | awk "/^ii linux-(image|headers)/ && ! /`uname -r`/ {print \$2}") -
This will print the name of every installed package on a Debian system.
0aptitude search ~i -F %p -
Marks all manually installed deb packages as automatically installed. Usefull to combine with
apt-get install <all manually packages that we want>to have a clean installed debian-based system.0aptitude -F "%p" search \!~M~i~T | xargs apt-mark markauto -
Removes packages that are recommended by other packages.
0aptitude remove '?and( ?automatic(?reverse-recommends(?installed)), ?not(?automatic(?reverse-depends(?installed))) )' -
0% sudo yum remove streams-$(uname-r)
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Use dpkg-query to query packages.
0dpkg-query -W -f '${binary:Package} ${Status}\n' '*' |sed -n 's/ deinstall ok config-files//p'|xargs dpkg --purge -
Same as 7272 but that one was too dangerous so i added -P to prompt users to continue or cancel Note the double space: "...^ii␣␣linux-image-2..." Like 5813, but fixes two bugs: [1]This leaves the meta-packages 'linux-headers-generic' and 'linux-image-generic' alone so that automatic upgrades work correctly in the future. [2]Kernels newer than the currently running one are left alone (this can happen if you didn't reboot after installing a new kernel).
-1sudo aptitude remove -P $(dpkg -l|awk '/^ii linux-image-2/{print $2}'|sed 's/linux-image-//'|awk -v v=`uname -r` 'v>$0'|sed 's/-generic//'|awk '{printf("linux-headers-%s\nlinux-headers-%s-generic\nlinux-image-%s-generic\n",$0,$0,$0)}') -
Especially useful for latex packages, which are listed in the description of their Ubuntu package E.g. say I want to find the Ubuntu package containing latex package aeguill:
aptitude search ~daeguillp texlive-lang-french - TeX Live: French-1aptitude search ~d<string> - 1 2 >
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