On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Hardik Dalwadi
<[email protected]> wrote:

<snip>
> Also, if you want to remove deinstall (rc) packages, you have to purge
> it separately. Again, you can not use "apt-get remove --purge" command
> to purge packages. `dpkg -P package_name` would be your friend. If you
> have bunch of packages, then here is one liner for the same:
>
<snip/>

dpkg -P <package_name> doesn't take care of dependencies. (CMIIW)

while

aptitude purge <package_name> does.



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With Regards
Abhishek Amberkar

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