Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

[Niu Kun <haoniukun@gmail.com>]

Robert P. J. Day 写道:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
>
>   
> > See if your 'apt-get' supports 'apt-get purge'.
> >     
>
>   it does, but how does that solve my problem?  should i try to purge
> a package, then see what the result would be before saying yes/no?
>   
Yes. apt-get will ask you if you'd like to remove the related package.
Or you can use 'apt-cache show `packagename`'.
It'll list the related "Depends" package.
Hope this will also help.:)
> rday
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