Re: Purge leaves some files
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:46:58AM +0200, Torok Balint <toba12@freemail.hu> was heard to say:
> 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.
Actually, aptitude won't purge the dependencies unless you pass
the command-line argument --purge-unused. So your problem is just
some packages that didn't get removed, not configuration files
left behind.
> 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?
Easiest way to get rid of the leftover files is to run 'dpkg -S' on
them and find out which package they belong to, then purge those
packages. That doesn't guarantee you've got all the dependencies, though.
Daniel
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