Aptitude--any users!

[Alan Pope]

On 1 May 2011 21:15, James Freer <jessejazza at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Recently looking at the aptitude man file i realised i'd overlooked
> the 'purge' option. My understanding of aptitude was that IF used for
> ALL installs it remembers files and thus on removal removes all  - in
> practice i've found it does this. So what does the purge option do?
> What instances would this be useful for.
>

Purge will get rid of config as well as the application.

So for example if you install apache2, you'll get the apache web
server and some config in /etc/apache2. If you remove the package
you'll get rid of the application but the config will remain.

If you purge it you'll remove the application and the config.

Cheers,
Al.