Re: a dpkg question

[Andreas Rippl <a.rippl@gmx.net>]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:17:51AM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
> after my removal of Gnome and a run of orphaner running dpkg -l | grep 
> ^r gives me a long list of removed packages whose config files are still 
> there (status rc).
> 
> Is there some trick to purge them all ?
> 
> I tried through dselect and synaptic but could not find a way.
> 
> TIA,
> Bob
> 
Hi Bob,                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                        
with apt-get you can do 'apt-get --purge' to remove a package including                                                 
its configuration files. I tend to keep them around however, just in                                                    
case I'd like to reinstall at a later point. I am not too sure if you                                                   
can use --purge on an uninstalled package though.                                                                       
                                                                                                                        
Hth,

Andreas