Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:- > # dpkg --get-selections|sed -e 's/deinstall$/purge/'|dpkg --set-selections > # apt-get dselect-upgrade > > what this does is find packages that were removed but not purged and purges > them. That doesn't appear to do what I want. The mutt-i package is not flagged "deinstall"; in fact only 2 or 3 unrelated packages are. It has never been installed on my system. Neil.