30 Dec
2010
30 Dec
'10
4:12 a.m.
Hi all
Is there any easy way to get the description of all packages listed in a file which contains the names of all such packages?
eg. i used sudo dpkg --get-selections >installed-software
to make a list of all installed software packages on my system However I want to remove some of them in batch mode (from the command line) instead of by using synaptic and deleting them one by one which is a cumbersome process. So the description of such packages is needed in another file containing a subset of names of packages likely to be removed.
How can this be done ?
Kussh