On Sun July 14 2019 20:02:27 Felix Miata wrote: > Mike Bird composed on 2019-07-14 19:28 (UTC-0700): > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> Is it normal for non-iis not to be reduced to 0? How to get rid of the > >> numerous rcs? > > > > dpkg --purge ... > > # dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | wc -l > 125 > # dpkg --purge ... > dpkg: error: --purge needs a valid package name but '...' is not: illegal > package name in specifier '...': must start with an alphanumeric character You can either manually list the non-ii packages there or use some bash/awk magic. I'm not going to publish a solution that purges a huge number of packages which someone might try ten years hence and do themselves a lot of harm. --Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting