Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

[formless void <formlessv@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Carl for the reply.

Some of the debian packages are not quite sincere and
I need to remove them before I can trust them.



--- Carl Fink <carl@fink.to> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:09:39PM -0700, formless
> void wrote:
> > from the system?
> 
> I tend to use "apt-get remove <name of package>". 
> If you also want to
> remove configuration files you use "apt-get remove
> --purge <name>".
> 
> If you use aptitude or dselect or some other apt
> front-end, you'd do it
> differently.  In the end they all run "dpkg -r", I
> suppose.
> -- 
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