atp-get -h does not show "--purge" Sound like an undocumented "fdisk /mbr" kind of thing. Sam. Harry Penner wrote: >Actually I think it's > >apt-get --purge remove afterstep > >Leaving the config files around after uninstalling a package is a very >sane default. > >If you use dselect you'll get recommendations as well as hard >dependencies. I bet you'd have been prompted for an X server. > >-hp3 > >On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:38, The Wandering Dru wrote: > > >>Sam MacDonald wrote: >> >> >> >>># apt-get remove afterstep >>>It still leaves directories and files for me to manually remove, the >>>unistall process needs to be complete. Freaking delete the files then >>>the directory. I don't care who wrote apt-get they need to do the job >>>right. >>>*</Ranting>* >>> >>> >>apt-get purge afterstep >> >>This will remove directories and config data too. >> >>To install just XFree86: >> >>apt-get install x-window-system >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list