On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 05:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hei > > I installed postfix in place of exim but forgot to use the purge option > when removing exim. > > I want to remove all files that were installed by the exim package. > > My question is how would one go about this. Of course, I could just > delete the files, (assuming I could determine what they were) but wouldn't > exim still be displayed when I run dpkg -l. > > I notice that there is a script exim.postrm in the directory /var/lib/dpkg/info. > Would it be enough to run this script manually? > > > t-irvine > there are few things that reside on your system when you install something: a) the deb package (use rm to delete) b) the cache (where the package is unpacked) c) the binary files (use apt-get remove pkgname) d) the config files (use dpkg --purge pkgname) use can also use apt-get remove --purge pkgname to do c + d -Kev
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