On 2011-12-15 18:58 +0100, Ken Heard wrote:

> Bob Proulx wrote:
>
>> It is a good time to tidy up the system.  Look through your list of
>> removed packages that have not been purged.  Those are ones that have
>> been removed 'r' but still have configuration files for them 'c' left
>> on the system.
>> 
>>   dpkg -l | grep ^rc
>
> I ran this command and found about 120 packages labelled "rc".  Is there
> a command to remove all such packages in one swell foop?

aptitude purge "~c"

Back up your /etc directory before you do that!

Sven


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