how to *completely* remove a package from the cmd line?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Jordon Bedwell wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 00:00 -0400, J wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 20:09, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > >  more than once, i've wanted to remove every trace of an installed
> > > package, and i always thought that "purge" was the way to do it but
> > > even after i've done:
> > >
> > >  $ sudo apt-get purge <package>
> >
> > $ sudo dpkg --purge --force all <package>
>
> apt-get autoremove --purge <package> does the trick too.

  neither of those solutions seems "right" to me.  in the first case,
i'm always reluctant to use "--force" on anything since, IMHO, forcing
anything always seems like an admission that something's gone horribly
wrong.  and in the second case, "autoremove" is a completely
independent operation, is it not?

  i'd always understood that "apt-get purge <package>" was what i
wanted but, clearly, that's not true.

rday

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