On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 20:09, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > more than once, i've wanted to remove every trace of an installed > package, and i always thought that "purge" was the way to do it but > even after i've done: > > $ sudo apt-get purge <package> $ sudo dpkg --purge --force all <package>