On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:45:55PM -0600, Jacqueline Urick wrote:
> I'm running debian unstable. I installed the "desktop environment"
> task via tasksel and I'm wondering if there is a way to remove the
> entire task thats now installed. The man page for tasksel doesn't
> cover uninstalling an entire task, nor does apt-get or dpkg.
The easiest way to do this is to get the source for tasksel and look at
the lists in $topdir/tasks. For each package in the list, do an
"echo $package purge | dpkg --set-selections"
Then issue an "apt-get dselect-upgrade -yu". That should clean up most
of what you installed.
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