[ale] just installed LibreOffice in Linux, should have been easier

Ron Frazier atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com
Mon Mar 14 10:43:48 EDT 2011


Hi JD,

That's also good info to know. I'm saving this post as well.

I take it then, that I would NOT want to do either of these:

sudo aptitude --purge purge open*
sudo aptitude --purge purge linux*

I guest those would precipitate the bad things you're talking about. 8-)

Sincerely,

Ron

On 03/14/2011 05:17 AM, JD wrote:
> On 03/14/2011 12:59 AM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>    
>> There is no "master".  However, if you installed it using a single
>> package that then pulled all of the other packages, you can easily
>> remove it with a command line thus:
>>
>> $ sudo aptitude --purge purge main-package-that-pulled-the-others
>>
>> This will purge the main package (e.g., the one that you used to pull
>> all of the other ones) and it will purge any other associated packages
>> that are *automatically* installed *and* have no other dependencies.
>>
>> I'm not sure that there is a way to directly translate that into a GUI
>> with a reasonable number of steps.  The packaging systems on (most)
>> distributions are quite a bit more flexible than the packaging scheme
>> that Microsoft uses (that is, the Windows Installer package management
>> system, also known by some as the MSI package management system).
>>      
> Or you can use wildcards if the package names are similar:
>
> $ sudo aptitude --purge purge openoffice.org*
>
> Obviously, you need to include enough specifics in the name to avoid
> doing something bad, really bad.
>    

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