Re: Doing an "apt-get --purge remove" after an earlier "remove"?
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:34:01AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> In other words, I intended to type this:
>
> apt-get --purge remove the-package
>
> ... but I inadvertantly typed this:
>
> apt-get remove the-package
>
> In these cases, is there any way that I can now do the equivalent of the
> "--purge" without re-installing the package and re-issuing the "remove"
> command with the "--purge" flag?
Use 'dpkg --purge the-package'.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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