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 ? You can try with dpkg --get-selections and dpkg--set-selections. Something like: dpkg --get-selections > selections.original # grep all lines that don't have "deinstall" at then *end* of the # line. You never know if there are any packages that have # "deinstall" in their name. cat selections.original | grep -v deinstall$ > selections.new # Check and double check! diff selections.original selections.new dpkg --set-selections < selections.new And now something like `dpkg --remove --pending' or dselect or whatever is your preferred way to remove packages. In case of dpkg you may want to add something like --no-act|--dry-run|--simulate to see what will happen before it actually happens. In case of problems reset the original selections: dpkg --set-selections < selections.original HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
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