remove program not remove all components - help

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Tue Aug 23 22:56:17 UTC 2005


On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:49:03PM +0300, Elcin Bextiyar Memmedzade wrote:
>hi,
>i have a question:
>when i want to remove a program -which installed by me using 
>syn.pack.manager- from the system i found that not all of component being 
>removed. i tried "Mark to remove with all components" etc., but , you know, 
>i saw that when it installs, it says that -for example- 5MB will download 
>and 30MB will be used extra space. so, when i try to remove that program, i 
>wait it say smth. like: 5MB will trashed and 30MB will give you free space.
>but it removes only 5MB or 10 MB !!!
>so, how can i clean the components that not being used now by me???

I'm not entirely sure I understand your question, but it sounds like you
want to get rid of unused packages.

I personally use debfoster to achieve a lean/mean system.

/M

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