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iamthewalrus	2008-09-13 , 19:32
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On the desktop there is 'deborphan' to remove orphaned packages. Digging through the forum I found this command: that deletes leftover config files:

Code:

dpkg --purge $(dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }')

This constructs a list of packages which are removed but still have their configuration files installed (denoted by the ^rc pattern) and passes this list to the package management utility to purge all obsolete files. (source)

I haven't tried this myself so I have no idea if this works well. You can see what would be uninstalled with:

Code:

dpkg --list | grep ^rc | awk '{ print $2; }'

so you can delete them manually using dpkg --purge name-of-the-package

Last edited by iamthewalrus; 2008-09-13 at 19:45.

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