purge

[norman]

> > Please help me, I am going round in ever decreasing circles and I am
> > afraid I will disappear soon. How do I remove all files relating to
> > mythtv and mysql and please don't tell me to use synaptic? Synaptic
> > seems to remove all the big stuff but there other bits and pieces
> > lurking here and there I feel sure. 
> > 
> > Norman
> 
> Were you perhaps a Windows user in a past life?  :)

How did you guess?
> 
> I'd do something like:
> 
> dpkg -l | grep myth
> 
> ...to get a list of mythtv packages and plugins and then I'd...
> 
> sudo apt-get remove packagename --purge
> sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
> 
> I'm sure something similar would work for Mysql.
> 
> Are you worried about leftover settings in Gnome or something?

What I want to do is to remove what I suspect is a broken installation
and to re-install a fresh set of applications. The fact is that when I
do this using synaptic, re-install afresh and start to set up, the
settings from the previous installation are still there. Hence my
concern.

Norman