Re: purge packages already removed
On 21 Oct 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> hello all!
>
> i have done quite a bit of installing and removing packages on my debian
> woody 3.0 system.
>
> one thing i missed out on was that instaed of purging the packages, i
> removed them. if i understand correctly, it means that the configuration
> and other files will be on the system still.
>
> now, i will like to purge packages i have already removed. this will
> make sure that the configuration files will also be deleted/ gone.
>
> is there a way in which it can be done?
>
> thanx
>
> - sandip
>
I generally just do dpkg --purge <foo.deb>. I expect you could do it in
aptitude too but I'm pretty new to that.
AC
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