Re: Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status
David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> writes:
>On Sunday 18 Tishrey 5772 19:32:50 debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
>wrote:
>> What is the output of the command
>>
>> grep 'Status:' /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep -v installed
>>
>A bunch of lines:
>Status: deinstall ok config-files
If you just need to purge all packages that just have their config installed,
the easiest way I know of is to use the aptitude.
# aptitude purge ~c
This will purge all packages that have been removed but have left config
files around.
If you want to see what those packages are, run
# aptitude search ~c
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