Saturday, September 01, 2012

Debian / Ubuntu: purge removed packages with apt

Removing packages with aptitude or apt-get keeps some configuration and temp files on disk.
to purge them (to get rid of these configuration files) execute:

dpkg -l |awk ‘/^rc/ {print $2}’ |xargs sudo dpkg --purge

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