On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 22:00:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > ~$ dpkg -l|grep -i apache > rc apache2.2-common > rc libapache2-mod-php5 > rc libapr1 > rc libaprutil1 > > What does the 'rc' mean? The others are apparently completely removed > now, but these 4 still show up. Is there something preventing their > total removal? The package has been removed but some configuration files remain. They are probably in /var/lib/dpkg/info/. 'dpkg --purge' deals with it.