Synaptic any better than Windows ?

[Markus Kolb]

Vram wrote on Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 17:17:32 -0800:
> On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 01:52 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > Hmmmm, hum hum....mmmmmmm.......
> > 
> > I tried to remove the 'powernowd' program, as it's installed by Ubuntu,
> > but it doesn't work with my CPU apparently, so I would rather keep it
> > from loading at boot. The less stuff in memory and on in the system disk
> > partition, the better.
> > 
> > So I removed it from Synaptic.... or so I thought !
> 
> 
> Try apt-get remove powernowd....

Vincent,

if you know how to do it you can remove every file from a package.

There is a remove and a purge in APT package management.
Remove keeps the system configuration if you want to reinstall the package
later.
Purge deletes everything.
Synaptic uses the synonyms remove and complete remove if I remember
right.
Many software stores user configuration in the home directory of the
user in directories which has something to do with the package name.
You can remove your home configurations by simply deleting the
correspondant directory.
So system stuff becomes removed by the package management and user stuff
can be removed by the user.

The purge command would be
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge powernowd

Or try complete removal option in Synaptic.

So Linux is better than Windows ;o)
Maybe still a bit complicated for first time users who don't know much
about it.

Markus