Re: package management help

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

Stan Hoeppner wrote, on 10/16/11 05:00:
<snip>
> Moving forward... I removed all of the apache2 junk with
> '--purge-unused', ran aptitude update and aptitude safe-upgrade, and
> none of the apache2 junk shows up in the upgrade list, which was the
> original immediate goal here.  I've probably got more cleaning to do.
> For instance:
> 
> ~$ 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?
> 
> Thanks for the info everyone.
> 

These could be removed by the command

  aptitude purge '~c'

This will remove all left over configuration files.
-- 
Best regards,
Jörg-Volker.