On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 09:17, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
I just read the abp-get manpage and cannot understand some references.
The manpage for each option gives a useage such as APT: :GET: :PURG
Lets say I want to purge kdm. Can someone give a proper command line to use
that would be applicable to all options.
I'm not sure what man page you're looking at, but my apt-get man page
clearly shows command line options with the full configuration options
(such as APT::Get::Purge) only at the very end of the description.
Purge, in particular, is shown as:
‐‐purge
Use purge instead of remove for anything that would be removed.
An asterisk ("*") will be displayed next to packages which are
scheduled to be purged. Configuration Item: APT::Get::Purge.
So to get back to your original question, the command line to use to
purge something would be "apt-get remove --purge <packagename>".