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

[Robert Holtzman]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 08:26:50PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 14:24 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > > "locate" does not locate anything in the disk system, but only in its
> > > own database, which is created by "updatedb" cron job. Try running
> > > "updatedb" after the purge, and then "locate" again... Should not find
> > > the package any more.
> > 
> > I know. That's what I normally do.
> 
> locate also doesn't search in the /media directory. Anything stored
> there will not be "located". Ric

Was unaware of that but the things I run locate for don't reside in
/media.

Thanks.

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Bob Holtzman
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