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 use this (all one line, as root):
export COLUMNS=150; dpkg -l | grep "^rc" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs dpkg -P
Adam