purge

[Brian Beattie]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 19:08 +0000, norman wrote:

> > 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

You can also do a "dpkg-reconfigure <package name>" to reconfigure a
package if you suspect a configuration error.

> 
> 
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