Re: Major Hair Loss After apt-get upgrade

[Kenward Vaughan <kay_jay@earthlink.net>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 08:28:00PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
> Micha Feigin wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:22:22AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
...
> > Something else that sometimes helps is to try reinstalling the related
> > packages or purging and reinstalling, it can sometimes be some leftover
> > configuration files that have changed and haven't been updated
> > properly since you changed them.
> 
> I tried that too.  I did apt-get remove gphoto2, apt-get remove gtkam, 
> and even apt-get remove gimp for good measure.  Then I did apt-get clean 
> , thinking that might be the way to purge the old stuff (if that wasn't 
> the right way, could someone please tell me how purges are done?)

You need to run 
	apt-get --purge remove <package-name>
to clean out the config files.  I'd suggest recording the session (man
script) in case anything else isn't removed--that way you'll be able to
see the warnings in the script file in case they fly past too fast as
it happens.


Kenward
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