On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:07:19 -0700
Gregory Nowak wrote:
Hello Gregory,
>Brad, I would appreciate it if you would please not put words in my
>mouth! I didn't mention user space files or directories at all! What I
It was not my intention to either a) put words in your mouth or b) cause
offense, f
Le 11.10.2013 06:10, John W. Foster a écrit :
I stripped every reference to evolution from the entire file system,
Including hidden folders?
Try this:
$cd ~
$find -iname '*evolution*'
At that point, if you found something, then you forgot hidden folders,
so do
$rm -r `find -iname '*evolut
On 2013-10-11, John W. Foster wrote:
> installed by an application. Currently for example evolution 'hides' its
> dot files somewhere other that a simple .evolution. I wanted to try to
>From their FAQ (but it may be outdated):
Where does Evolution store my data?
Evolution stores your data in $
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:10:16PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote:
> I suppose I should have asked a more precise question. Thanks to all of
> you that offered suggestions;
> I think the real issue with what I need to do is that I do indeed want
> to know if there is a "debian" way to completely purge
On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 11:21 -0500, John W. Foster wrote:
> I want to know if there is a way to use reinstall with some command to
> overwrite all the existing configs using the dist configs. I want a
> complete new installation with no modifications. I have tried this but
> so far apt uses the exi
On 10/10/2013 5:23 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Le 10.10.2013 21:59, Jerry Stuckle a écrit :
On 10/10/2013 3:08 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Le 10.10.2013 20:20, Brad Rogers a écrit :
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:54:57 -0700
Gregory Nowak wrote:
Hello Gregory,
"purge
On 10/10/2013 4:10 PM, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:59:42 -0400
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
> Hello Jerry,
>
Hi, Brad,
>> I'm not sure what the confusion is here. Sure, it deletes all
>
> See what Gregory wrote. He, for one, expected a purge to delete user
> space config files and
Le 11.10.2013 01:20, Gregory Nowak a écrit :
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:59:32AM +0200,
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Yes, I know that this is the normal behavior. It purged system-wide
configuration. But, the point is, that for some people, when they
read the man page, they think that i
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:59:32AM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
> Yes, I know that this is the normal behavior. It purged system-wide
> configuration. But, the point is, that for some people, when they
> read the man page, they think that it removes *all* configuration
> files, inclu
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 09:10:24PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> See what Gregory wrote. He, for one, expected a purge to delete user
> space config files and/or directories as well, based on what he read in
> the man pages for apt-get.
Brad, I would appreciate it if you would please not put words
Le 11.10.2013 00:49, Gregory Nowak a écrit :
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:23:50PM +0200,
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Maybe you, since you know how it works. But, someone with no
knowledge would think that it also removes userland configuration
files, since it claims to remove all config
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:23:50PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
> Maybe you, since you know how it works. But, someone with no
> knowledge would think that it also removes userland configuration
> files, since it claims to remove all configuration files.
Ok, since the man page is sa
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:59:42 -0400
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
Hello Jerry,
>I'm not sure what the confusion is here. Sure, it deletes all
See what Gregory wrote. He, for one, expected a purge to delete user
space config files and/or directories as well, based on what he read in
the man pages for a
Le 10.10.2013 21:59, Jerry Stuckle a écrit :
On 10/10/2013 3:08 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Le 10.10.2013 20:20, Brad Rogers a écrit :
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:54:57 -0700
Gregory Nowak wrote:
Hello Gregory,
"purge
purge is identical to remove except that packages a
On 10/10/2013 3:08 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Le 10.10.2013 20:20, Brad Rogers a écrit :
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:54:57 -0700
Gregory Nowak wrote:
Hello Gregory,
"purge
purge is identical to remove except that packages are
removed and
purged (any c
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:08:35 +0200
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Hello berenger.mo...@neutralite.org,
>I wonder if that could justify a bug report? Speaking about that, I
It's not something I'd considered, but maybe it would.
>have no idea about what exactly does the reinstall option: s
Le 10.10.2013 20:20, Brad Rogers a écrit :
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:54:57 -0700
Gregory Nowak wrote:
Hello Gregory,
"purge
purge is identical to remove except that packages are
removed and
purged (any configuration files are deleted too)."
As has been said, the
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:54:57 -0700
Gregory Nowak wrote:
Hello Gregory,
>"purge
> purge is identical to remove except that packages are
> removed and
> purged (any configuration files are deleted too)."
As has been said, the man page is imprecise.
--
Regards _
Le 10.10.2013 19:54, Gregory Nowak a écrit :
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 06:21:55PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
Hello Brad,
Not entirely true; Any package that has configuration
files/directories
in user space will have those left even after an apt-get(1) purge.
So,
to be sure, one has to dele
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 06:21:55PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
Hello Brad,
> Not entirely true; Any package that has configuration files/directories
> in user space will have those left even after an apt-get(1) purge. So,
> to be sure, one has to delete those as well.
>
$ man 1 apt-get
No manua
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:09:27 -0700
Gregory Nowak wrote:
Hello Gregory,
>then completely gone from your system, configs and all. When you
>install package_name again it will be installed fresh as if it had
>never been installed on the system before. HTH.
Not entirely true; Any package that has
Hi,
Yes, it is possible, you can do
apt-get install package --reinstall
It will work even if the package is installed, but a full removing will be
even a better solution
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 11:21:39AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote:
> I want to know if there is a way to use reinstall with some command to
> overwrite all the existing configs using the dist configs. I want a
> complete new installation with no modifications. I have tried this but
> so far apt uses t
I want to know if there is a way to use reinstall with some command to
overwrite all the existing configs using the dist configs. I want a
complete new installation with no modifications. I have tried this but
so far apt uses the existing configs. I end up with a non working
server. I had this same
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