Re: cleaning tips?
Re: cleaning tips?
- Subject: Re: cleaning tips?
- From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:39:10 +0100
magenta wrote:
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Isn't there some stuff like the src/ that I could get rid of? How?
You can do "sudo rm /sw/src/*" if you really need the space and you
don't worry about re-downloading sources later on.
Depending on how you did the installation, you might also want to look
whether there is anything in /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/. If there is,
you can remove it using "sudo apt-get clean".
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Some prefer to use apt-get remove instead of dpkg --purge. I don't think
there's any real difference.
Some even prefer "fink remove" :-) This avoids the need of prepending
"sudo" that apt-get and dpkg are needing.
Differences are:
"apt-get remove" also removes packages depending on the one you want to
remove, sometimes without asking questions. It may happily remove half
of your fink installation. "fink remove" just fails if something depends
on the package you want to remove.
"dpkg --purge" is more thorough than "dpkg --remove" or "fink remove".
The latter leave configuration files untouched. --purge removes these, too.
OK, we are way OT for the X11 list, anyway...
--
Martin
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