On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 02:32:39PM +0200, Torok Balint wrote: > Hello! > > I am not sure, but I thought when using apt-get remove --purge <some_package> > that it will remove EVERY file taht the given package have installed. Well, I > have installed the packages apache and apache-doc, and then purged them. But > the /usr/share/apache is still there. Then I installed apache2 and > apache2-doc, and almost immediatly purged them too, but the directories > /usr/share/apache2, /usr/share/doc/apache2, /usr/share/doc/apache2-doc are > still there with some files in them. Something similar happened when > installing/purging postgres too. > Is this the right behavior of apt-get? If it is then what should I do to > remove _ALL_ files that some package have installed? > Use something like aptitude, which will also remove dependencies which were automatically pulled in. For example, apache2 depends on apache2-common. If you remove only apache2, apache2-common's files will remain, some of which may be in that directory.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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