Re: Purging config file of removed package

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 17:11:36 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> during the upgrade of udev, it found that I still have /etc/init.d/hotplug. 
> This is true, but since I remove the hotplug package before (apt-get remove 
> hotplug) I have still the config files.
> 
> Not "apt-get remove --purge hotplug" does not work (see below). Can anybody 
> tell how I can purge config files?

[...]

> grieve:~# apt-get remove --purge hotplug
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package hotplug is not installed, so not removed
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
> grieve:~# 

Try "dpkg -P hotplug". 

If the package is properly purged you should see this:

$ dpkg -l hotplug
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                 Version              Description
+++-====================-====================-========================================================
pn  hotplug              <none>               (no description available)

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Regards,
          Florian