LinuxQuestions.org - Cannot remove tor program on debian (with later reinstall)

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Originally Posted by hydrurga (Post 5868521)

If you don't mind me saying so, this would not be advisable because it would pick up all the packages with "tor" somewhere in the name, so would also purge innocent bystanders such as mate-system-monitor and libstorable-perl.

Also, there's no need for apt-get --purge remove, the less verbose apt-get purge will work fine.

You're correct, it could. 'tor' is unfortunately probably found in packages not related to tor. I suppose

Code:

$ dpkg -l | grep tor

would be a good safety measure first. It would probably be better to search for 'tor' in synaptic and hand select the items to remove.