Re: purge packages already removed

[Sandip P Deshmukh]

David Z Maze wrote:

Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

On 21 Oct 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:

one thing i missed out on was that instaed of purging the packages, i removed them. if i understand correctly, it means that the configuration and other files will be on the system still.

(Just the package's declared configuration files, which will generally
all be under /etc.)

this is troublesome. how to locate the deletable directories in /etc is a question.

Packages with "c" in the first column in the aptitude display have
only conffiles on the system; pressing '_' will purge them (same as in
dselect, incidentally).  Searching for '~c' in aptitude will find
packages in this state.

excellent tip. i did just that and it worked perfect. thanx for help!

If you really really want to do things from the command line, you can
install the grep-dctrl package and then run

well, aptitude seems to be a safer solution.
-sandip


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