Can i delete it?

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:36:12 -0500
anthony baldwin <anthony.baldwin01 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Synaptic has a section of  (local or obsolote)
> Would that list such no-longer-needed files for removal?

Not necessarily - for example, installations using compilation with
"checkinstall" will show up in that list - and more or less by definition,
those packages that you made yourself and installed are likely to be
packages that you would prefer to keep.
> 
> Alternatively, shouldn't "mark for complete removal" in synpatic or
> sudo * apt-get --purge remove <package>*
> remove an application AND all the unecessary config files and stuff?

Pretty much, yes. "--purge" will remove the package + "global" config files
- the only files it won't touch are personal config files in $HOME
( usually ~/.appname or sometimes other dot files under for example
~/.config , ~/.gconf  etc. )

Peter

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