how to *completely* remove a package from the cmd line?

[Jordon Bedwell]

On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 00:00 -0400, J wrote:
> 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>
> 

apt-get autoremove --purge <package> does the trick too.