removing an application

[Steve Flynn]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:18 PM, norman <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> I have always assumed that when one used Synaptic to totally remove an
> application that is what happened. So, I opened Synaptic, searched for
> ufraw found two applications and totally removed them. Then, to make
> sure there were no files remaining I used search for files and
> immediately found 47 files all with ufraw in them. Could someone please
> explain to me what is going on and tell me how I can best remove all the
> files connected with ufraw.


You need to "Mark for Complete Removal" for config files and suchlike
to be removed. By default, only the executable code is removed when
you "remove" a package the config files are left behind in case you
want to re-install.

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Steve
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