1 Jan
2011
1 Jan
'11
11:32 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Kussh Singh <kussh.singh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Raghu Prasad <prasad.raghu.k(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
try
$ apt-cache show $(dpkg --get-selections |cut -f1) > package-desc.lst
The file will have all the packages install on your system along with
their description
After your remove packages also try
# apt-get autoremove
to remove all packages not required on the system due to the
dependencies removed from the system.
From your description, I haven't understood your requirement very well.
Though I suspect you might be looking at something like this:
dpkg --get-selections | sed -es'![ \t]\+.\+$!!' | tee
/var/tmp/installed-software | xargs apt-cache depends
Thank you for the info.
I was thinking of removing certain packages in one go that were tried out
but were not found suitable in a new installation--so description of all
packages installed earlier was needed.
Thank you for your response. I guess I will have to go thru the apt
documentation fairly rigorously in order to get the description of each
package in one go. /var/tmp/software-dpendencies
It lists down all the dependencies/suggestions/conflicts of packages
installed
on your system. If you just want to find out dependencies of few select
packages
you want to remove, then put their names (one per line) in a file, (say
packages-to-remove) and run the following:
cat packages-to-remove | xargs apt-cache depends >/var/tmp/pkg-dpendencies
Raghu
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Kussh
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