Install Real?]

Avraham Hanadari rufus at hanadari.net
Tue Apr 18 13:33:15 UTC 2006


Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:12:02 -0300
> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>There's a crucial space between "remove" and "--purge"  thus:
>>>
>>>sudo apt-get remove --purge realplayer
>>
>>except that, iirc, apt-get requires its options _before_ its command:
>># apt-get --purge remove realplayer
> 
> 
> Not so - I use apt-get remove --purge <packagename>  regularly , and it
> does what one would expect.
> 
> 
>>Aptitude is so much simpler:
>># aptitude purge realplayer
> 
> 
> Agreed, that is simpler :)
> 
> Peter
> 
I'm a real and true newbie with all this stuff. Where is there a list of 
at least some of these incantations?

Avraham




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