Re: Wireshark detritus
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 20:45:33 Lisi wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am wanting to install the Wireshark tarball, preparatory to which I ran
> aptitude purge to clear the deb out, together with its config files. I
> then ran locate to find any files left so that I could remove them
> manually. I got this:
>
> Tux:/home/lisi# locate wireshark
> /etc/wireshark
> /etc/wireshark/init.lua
> /home/lisi/.opera/icons/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wireshark.org%2Ffavicon.png
> /home/lisi/.opera/icons/www.wireshark.org.idx
> /root/.wireshark
> /root/.wireshark/recent
> /usr/bin/wireshark
> /usr/lib/wireshark
> /usr/share/wireshark
> /usr/share/applications/wireshark-root.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/wireshark.desktop
> /usr/share/apps/kappfinder/apps/Internet/wireshark.desktop
> /usr/share/doc/wireshark
> /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common
> /usr/share/man/man1/wireshark.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man4/wireshark-filter.4.gz
> /usr/share/menu/wireshark
> /usr/share/pixmaps/hi48-app-wireshark.png
> /var/cache/apt/archives/wireshark-common_1.0.2-3+lenny14_i386.deb
> /var/cache/apt/archives/wireshark_1.0.2-3+lenny14_i386.deb
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.conffiles
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.md5sums
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.postinst
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark-common.shlibs
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark.md5sums
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark.postinst
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/wireshark.postrm
> /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/X-Debian-Applications-Network-Monit
>oring-wireshark.desktop
> /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/ask.wireshark.org_upfiles_wsicon-ask_.png
> /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/wiki.wireshark.org.png
> /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/wireshark.zing.org.png
> /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/wiresharkdownloads.riverbed.com.png
> /var/tmp/kdecache-lisi/favicons/www.wireshark.org.png
> Tux:/home/lisi#
>
> What would be a sensible way of proceding from here? Manually delete them
> one by one? Or is there a simpler (=quicker) way??
>
> Thanks,
> Lisi
Replying to my own post: there are obviously some groups where several could
be deleted at the same time with the help of *. Looked at that way it doen't
seem so daunting!
Sorry for the noise. :-(
Lisi
Lisi
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