On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Peter Hardy wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 11:45:40 +1100 Terry Collins wrote:
> > Peter Hardy wrote:
> > > No.  remove will uninstall the package, but configuration files stay
> > > installed, as well as debconf config, and the package file will stay
> > > in apt's cache (/var/cache/apt/archives/)
> >
> > Is there a command to clean out/remove the configuration files as
> > well. I suspect one of them is corrupted and want to start afresh
> > (rather than laboriously comb configuration files).
>
> Add the --purge option to the remove command.  I'm fairly sure the
> package stays in your cache, though.

... and use --purge with extreme caution.... I lost my apache server by
not paying attention when deleting something with a cross-dependency that
wasn't immediately obvious :(

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