On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:32:56 +0100, Sheridan Hutchinson wrote:

> Great, that's sorted, now lets look at cruft let packages that have just
> been removed. Load up synaptic (or install it if necessary) and click
> 'reload' in the top-left hand area.
> Now click 'Status' in the bottom left-hand area, and then finally you'll
> see in the middle-left hand area 'Not installed (residual config).
> Click on that an admire all the removed packages that have left cruft.
> Select them all the right-click, select 'completely remove' then click
> apply.
> Close synaptic, and you're done.

or as a shell one-liner:

dpkg --list | grep '^rc\b' | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs aptitude --assume-yes purge



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