On 9/1/18 11:08 AM, dep wrote: > somebody here knows the correct answer to this: i installed a meta-package > that brought in a bunch of stuff. turns out, i don't like it and want to > remove it and all its demonspawn. is there a command that uses the > meta-package to uninstall what it installed? > > thanks. There are a 3 ways that I can think of: One use synaptic to remove the main package and rest will be listed as auto-remove. Two remove the main package and then run deborphan/gtkorphan to clean up the rest. Three install and run package 'upgrade-system'. To bad I can't run these tools on my head. -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Ceres - Trinity R14.0.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263