Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.
On 7/17/22, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 19:13:25 (-0700), Gary L. Roach wrote:
>> I used apt install to install the standard debian package and used apt
>> purge to uninstall. Further, I used rm -r to clean up the directories
>> that were left. If it helps:
>>
>
> Were I to install backuppc, 21 other packages would arrive with it
> (including Recommends). Did you purge all those too?
Another route I might try if I'd been purging some and "rm -r" others
is to maybe reinstall then "apt get autoremove backuppc". That very
nicely picks out everything that came along with and is no longer
needed if backuppc is removed. I check autoremove's proposed list
carefully each time because some packages will try to remove the
desktop environment, for example.
Using autoremove comes from actually reading my terminal's entire
output when apt-get shows off a list of packages that are no longer
needed after upgrades make them obsolete. :)
Cindy :)
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