Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:54:03AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Sharninder writes:
> > try dpkg -L <packagename> .. this will give u a list of all the files
> > installed by the package. then remove the package using apt-get remove
> > package.
> 
> Use 'apt-get purge <packagename>' to remove all files.

That should be 'apt-get --purge remove <packagename>'. (If you just want
to purge one package as opposed to following reverse dependencies, you
can use 'dpkg --purge <packagename>' instead.)

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]