Hello. cga2000, 06.02.2007 00:29: > What bothers me, though, is that a lot of the stuff in /usr/share/ -- > one Meg here .. 600K there .. etc. apparently belongs to packages I have > removed (apt-get remove package-name) .. Probably adds up to a hundred > Meg or thereabout .. Looks like I should have specified a purge flag or > whatever and I would probably have freed up a couple more hundred > Megs.. probably too late now.
No problem. You could use some one-liner like the following: # for i in `dpkg -l | grep ^rc | awk '{print $2}'`;do dpkg -P "$i";done Explanation: dpkg -l: This will obviously print out the status of every known package. grep ^rc: Only removed packages with config files left are relevant. awk '{print $2}': We only need the package names. dpkg -P: Purge the package. But make sure that you *really* need none of those config files anymore. Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules
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