[ale] just installed LibreOffice in Linux, should have been easier

[JD]

On 03/14/2011 12:59 AM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> There is no "master".  However, if you installed it using a single
> package that then pulled all of the other packages, you can easily
> remove it with a command line thus:
>
> $ sudo aptitude --purge purge main-package-that-pulled-the-others
>
> This will purge the main package (e.g., the one that you used to pull
> all of the other ones) and it will purge any other associated packages
> that are *automatically* installed *and* have no other dependencies.
>
> I'm not sure that there is a way to directly translate that into a GUI
> with a reasonable number of steps.  The packaging systems on (most)
> distributions are quite a bit more flexible than the packaging scheme
> that Microsoft uses (that is, the Windows Installer package management
> system, also known by some as the MSI package management system).

Or you can use wildcards if the package names are similar:

$ sudo aptitude --purge purge openoffice.org*

Obviously, you need to include enough specifics in the name to avoid 
doing something bad, really bad.