If I install something from a .deb, how to remove it?

[Goh Lip]

On 06/03/2010 02:49 AM, Pete Vander Giessen wrote:
> dpkg has a "get-selections" option that will list installed software:
>
> To list everything installed in your system:
> $ dpkg --get-selections
>
> To stop from going insane on account of the length of the list:
>
> $ dpkg --get-selections | grep -i<sometext>
>
> where<sometext>  is a reasonable guess as to what the package name
> might be.  For example:
>
> $ dpkg --get-selections | grep -i virtualbox
>
> Tells me that that I have the packaged "virtualbox-3.2" installed.
>
> $ sudo dpkg --remove virtualbox-3.2
> would get rid of it.


Good one there, Pete.

Arshad, you're welcome?

Regards - Goh Lip