Re: reinstalling Nginx & others usin apt from command line
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:10:16PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote:
> I suppose I should have asked a more precise question. Thanks to all of
> you that offered suggestions;
> I think the real issue with what I need to do is that I do indeed want
> to know if there is a "debian" way to completely purge all files
> installed by an application. Currently for example evolution 'hides' its
> dot files somewhere other that a simple .evolution. I wanted to try to
> get it reinstalled with a completely clean setup & no way to do so.
Ok, those dot files that evolution creates are probably ending up
under $HOME somewhere. That's my guess anyway. Since those files
weren't created by evolution when it was installed, but were created
when you ran evolution, they would be considered userspace files. As
the discussion here pointed out, apt-get purge won't get rid of them
for you. If there is a way to get rid of those userspace files other
than a manual hunt/delete, I don't know what that is. Good luck.
Greg
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