Synaptic remove completly

[Jim Byrnes]

On 03/27/2013 10:15 AM, Gergely 'Dinchamion' Fazekas wrote:
> On 03/27/2013 03:54 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> Been having trouble getting Backintime to do a snapshot on my 12.04
>> system.
>>
>> So I went to Synaptic and choose to completely remove it.  Then I
>> reinstalled it.  When I ran it for the first time I found it knew
>> about the last failed snapshot and displayed all the include and
>> exclude settings from the prior install.
>>
>> Obviously there was a config file of some kind still around from the
>> prior install.  Is this normal? Or should have the remove completely
>> option found and removed all the config files?
>>
>> Thanks,  Jim
>>
>>
> Hey,
>
> program data and program config are different - while Synaptic may purge
> the app's config files, many (if not most) programs store their data in
> your home directory. Probably that's why you found a snapshot and
> residual config.
>
> Cheers,
> Din
>

OK, I wanted to understand how completely remove worked.

Thanks,  Jim