Re: Purge leaves some files

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

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Torok Balint wrote:
> Helo!
> 
> Thank you everyone for the help I received.
> 
> I have tried to install/purge the same applications with aptitude on
> another computer and all went well. I conclude that the problem came
> into existance becouse apt-get did not purge the package dependencies
> along with the original package. Apt-get tried to purge only the
> "original" package, but left its dependencies intact. Now the problem
> is there, how can I correct it? How can I delete the leftover files?
> I should determine somehow what where the demendencies, and purge
> them too with apt-get? Would this delete the leftover files to?

Yes. As someone mentioned earlier, take an arbitrary file 'left over' in
that directory and find the package for that file:

dpkg -S filename

then purge that package by aptitude purge

repeat until the directory disappears.

HTH,

Johannes
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