Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application?

From	Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application?
Date	2017-03-11 14:20 +0100
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Harry Putnam wrote on 03/11/17 13:03:
> Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Do Synaptic, Aptitude, and possibly anything else of that family have
>> similarly close but still different flags/commands?
> 
> I haven't seen this mentioned in the thread... but may have missed it.
> 
> I've noticed that some times aptitue purge does not remove everything
> as show by running aptitude search on the pkg name and seeing the 'c'
> (lower case `c' ) the indicates some files remain that have user
> changes.
> 
> When that happens I've found that `dpkg' will most often complete the
> job.  `dpkg purge  pkgname'
> 
Next time you see configuration remnants, try

  aptitude purge '~c'

Regularly after updates, I (a heavy aptitude-cli user) command

  apt-get check ; dpkg -C ; aptitude search '~b' '~g' '~c'

to check the package management state.

Regards,
jvp.

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How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-08 19:10 +0100
  Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application? Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2017-03-08 19:30 +0100
    Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-08 20:20 +0100
  Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application? Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-03-08 19:40 +0100
    Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-08 20:40 +0100
      Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-08 21:50 +0100
      Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application? Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 00:00 +0100
        Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-09 07:20 +0100
        Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application? Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 08:50 +0100
    Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-09 11:10 +0100
      Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-03-09 12:10 +0100
    Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application? Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> - 2017-03-11 13:10 +0100
      Re: How to >>COMPLETELY<< remove an application? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-03-11 14:20 +0100

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