aptitude- purge everything

aquaboot · 10-23-2007, 06:02 PM

Hi All,

If I have added a package via aptitude and if I use the purge option, it deletes the package and dependencies. Is there a way to also remove all of the config. files with aptitude, as if the installation had never happened?

Thanks,

ab

pljvaldez · 10-23-2007, 06:54 PM

I believe purge is also supposed to get rid of the config files.

aquaboot · 10-23-2007, 07:29 PM

Yeah, I installed shorewall and did an aptitude purge shorewall and still found some directories intact. Had to remove them manually- ouch. :-(

-ab

rickh · 10-23-2007, 07:46 PM

If you installed it with aptitude then:
# aptitude remove shorewall
# aptitude purge shorewall
... it would be all gone.

Daws · 10-23-2007, 08:21 PM

shorewall requires manual creation of its config files. These config files will not be known to dpkg. It's just one of those things. dpkg will only remove config files that it knows about.

aquaboot · 10-23-2007, 08:53 PM

Thanks for the help.

-ab