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RE: exasperated by spaces

vrms | grep Contrib -B99999 | grep ^[a-z] | awk '{print $1}' | xargs sudo apt-get purge --force-yes -y -V --trivial-only

vrms | grep ^[a-z] | awk '{print $1}' | xargs sudo apt-get purge --force-yes -y -V --trivial-only

kmathern wrote:

RE: exasperated by spaces

This will remove all the non-free packages

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vrms | grep Contrib -B99999 | grep ^[a-z] | awk '{print $1}' | xargs sudo apt-get purge --force-yes -y -V --trivial-only

If you want to remove all the packages that vrms lists (both contrib & non-free), omit the first grep

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vrms | grep ^[a-z] | awk '{print $1}' | xargs sudo apt-get purge --force-yes -y -V --trivial-only

The commands posted above will stop short of actually removing the non-free and/or contrib packages, they'll show a summary instead.
Rerunning the command(s) again without the "--trivial-only" option will do it for real (make sure you really want to do it).



As far as removal of additional dependent packages goes I'm only seeing that the ddm-mx and acroread-debian-files packages would be removed initially on my MX-16 install, several others though are listed as 'autoremovable'.