Remove packages that match a regular expression
From raju
To remove all packages whose name matches with a regular expression
Approach 1
% apt-show-versions -r kde | cut -f1 -d':' > pkg_list.txt % xargs -a pkg_list.txt sudo apt-get remove
The first command generates the package list and the second command removes them. In the xargs command, "-a" specifies the file the input is read from.
Approach 2
% sudo apt-get remove ".*kde.*"