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APT: pattern matching with aptitude?



Madison McGaffin wrote:
> I don't know much about aptitude, but apt-get will do what you want:
> 
> sudo apt-get remove .*-doc$
> 
> does the trick.

Thanks, that would appear to do it, yet I don't know the proper 
equivalent in aptitude (without using section, ~s).  For instance, 
eclipse wanted to be removed if I tried this...heh
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Kristian Hermansen

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