Synaptic remove completly

[Gergely 'Dinchamion' Fazekas]

On 03/27/2013 03:54 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> Been having trouble getting Backintime to do a snapshot on my 12.04
> system.
>
> So I went to Synaptic and choose to completely remove it.  Then I
> reinstalled it.  When I ran it for the first time I found it knew
> about the last failed snapshot and displayed all the include and
> exclude settings from the prior install.
>
> Obviously there was a config file of some kind still around from the
> prior install.  Is this normal? Or should have the remove completely
> option found and removed all the config files?
>
> Thanks,  Jim
>
>
Hey,

program data and program config are different - while Synaptic may purge
the app's config files, many (if not most) programs store their data in
your home directory. Probably that's why you found a snapshot and
residual config.

Cheers,
Din