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Old 06-17-2018, 07:05 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by hydrurga View Post
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.
 
  


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