On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:58:24PM +0000, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Is there any way to remove all the packages at a stretch using apt or dpkg > ? > > When we do apt-get remove the configuration files are retained. Now say I > want to remove all these packges permenantly along with the configuration > files, How to do that ? At present I am doing dpkg --purge <all the > packages>. Is there any better way ?
`dpkg --purge` works and is a correct way. Personally, though, I prefer `apt-get remove --purge`, but they should be equivalent. If you use dselect, you can set a package's state to "_" to purge it. Those are all the ways I know of to purge a package. Did I miss any? -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius
