On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:48:25AM +1100, Anthony Wood wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:45:40AM +1100, Terry Collins wrote: > > 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). > > apt-get remove <package> will not remove the config files apt-get > --purge remove <package> will remove the config files.
If you've already removed a package with apt-get, but neglected to --purge it with apt-get, then apt-get will not be able to purge the configs. To clean up in this removed-but-not-purged situation, use dpkg's --purge instead. You can use dpkg -l to find packages that have been removed but didn't have their config purged. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
