Re: purge packages already removed

[Cristi Banciu <c.banciu@bucarest.finsiel.ro>]

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 12:49, 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?
U could do something like this:

# COLUMNS=200 dpkg --purge `dpkg -l | grep ^rc | awk '{print $2}'`