Re: removing traces of exim
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 05:27, amnesiac@koti.luukku.com wrote:
> Hei
>
> I installed postfix in place of exim but forgot to use the purge option
> when removing exim.
>
> I want to remove all files that were installed by the exim package.
>
> My question is how would one go about this. Of course, I could just
> delete the files, (assuming I could determine what they were) but wouldn't
> exim still be displayed when I run dpkg -l.
>
> I notice that there is a script exim.postrm in the directory /var/lib/dpkg/info.
> Would it be enough to run this script manually?
>
>
> t-irvine
>
there are few things that reside on your system when you install
something:
a) the deb package (use rm to delete)
b) the cache (where the package is unpacked)
c) the binary files (use apt-get remove pkgname)
d) the config files (use dpkg --purge pkgname)
use can also use apt-get remove --purge pkgname to do c + d
-Kev
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