Re: Debian to English translation
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:24
Subject: Re: Debian to English translation
> Alex Malinovich wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 09:17, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I just read the abp-get manpage and cannot understand some references.
> >>The manpage for each option gives a useage such as APT: :GET: :PURG
> >>
> >>Lets say I want to purge kdm. Can someone give a proper command line to
use
> >>that would be applicable to all options.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I'm not sure what man page you're looking at, but my apt-get man page
> >clearly shows command line options with the full configuration options
> >(such as APT::Get::Purge) only at the very end of the description.
> >Purge, in particular, is shown as:
> >
> >‐‐purge
> > Use purge instead of remove for anything that would be removed.
> > An asterisk ("*") will be displayed next to packages which are
> > scheduled to be purged. Configuration Item: APT::Get::Purge.
> >
> >So to get back to your original question, the command line to use to
> >purge something would be "apt-get remove --purge <packagename>".
> >
> >
> >
> IIUC, if you wanted the purge to be the default behaviour rather than
> having to specify it on the command line as Alex does above, you'd
> create/edit the file /etc/apt/apt.conf and put a line in it like so:
> APT::Get::Purge
>
> Now whenever you do an "apt-get remove foo", foo not only gets removed,
> it gets purged. I think.
>
> --
> Kent
>
We are reading the same man page I believe. I understand that the usage
item is the entry for apt.conf. Now that makes sense. Thanks.
Hoyt
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