When want to clean my installation I want to delete some installed packages. When I do this with apt-get not everthing is removed.
How can I remove the "left over""packages?
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Removing packages
'dpkg --purge' will remove all files from a package, including config files. It cannot handle depedencies like 'apt-get remove', but does not leave files on the system.
The only exception (to my knowledge) is the mysql-server package (so probably other sql servers fallinto this category). Mysql-servers offers an option to remove the databases after purging the package, and if you say no, the database files will remain no matter what.
The only exception (to my knowledge) is the mysql-server package (so probably other sql servers fallinto this category). Mysql-servers offers an option to remove the databases after purging the package, and if you say no, the database files will remain no matter what.