Harry Putnam wrote on 03/11/17 13:03: > Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Do Synaptic, Aptitude, and possibly anything else of that family have >> similarly close but still different flags/commands? > > I haven't seen this mentioned in the thread... but may have missed it. > > I've noticed that some times aptitue purge does not remove everything > as show by running aptitude search on the pkg name and seeing the 'c' > (lower case `c' ) the indicates some files remain that have user > changes. > > When that happens I've found that `dpkg' will most often complete the > job. `dpkg purge pkgname' > Next time you see configuration remnants, try
aptitude purge '~c' Regularly after updates, I (a heavy aptitude-cli user) command apt-get check ; dpkg -C ; aptitude search '~b' '~g' '~c' to check the package management state. Regards, jvp.
