Were Intrepid updates the reason I lost my sound on the Intrepid partition?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> On Monday 23 February 2009 00:44:56 Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> That won't help in Linux like it does in Windows, because in Linux
>>> there is separation between user files (your settings, such as mute)
>>> and the program's runtime files. This is partly a security feature,
>>> and partly because *nix was designed as a multi-user OS. Instead of
>>> reinstalling, try removing the configuration files for broken apps.
>> Well, that's what remove --purge is for.
>>
>> Matt Flaschen
> Perhaps, but I don't know when or how to apply --purge.

See man apt-get , and look at the --purge option.

Matt Flaschen