Re: purge packages already removed
Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> writes:
> On 21 Oct 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
>> 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.
(Just the package's declared configuration files, which will generally
all be under /etc.)
>> 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?
>
> I generally just do dpkg --purge <foo.deb>. I expect you could do it in
> aptitude too but I'm pretty new to that.
Packages with "c" in the first column in the aptitude display have
only conffiles on the system; pressing '_' will purge them (same as in
dselect, incidentally). Searching for '~c' in aptitude will find
packages in this state.
If you really really want to do things from the command line, you can
install the grep-dctrl package and then run
grep-status -e -FStatus -sPackage 'deinstall.*config'
(Looking at the results, though, grepping for just 'deinstall' might
work, which implies that this might work, too:
dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 == "deinstall" { print $1 }'
Certainly, it at least prints a list of package names.)
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