Aaron Thompson on Wed, 02 Apr 2003 12:57:17 -0600


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Re: [Cialug] Debian and BIND


This would do it... apt-get --purge remove package name.

Or if you have already apt-get removed the package I belive you
can send the --purge to dpkg:

  dpkg --purge package name.

 @

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:17:49PM -0600, Tony Geerts wrote:
> Oops try
> apt-get --purge {package}
> 
> This is a good time to suggest looking at the man page.
> You may have caught my error.
> man apt-get
> 
> tony geerts
> 
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jonathan Bailey wrote:
> 
> > No luck... Apt-get does not have a purge option. I'm running Woody (3.0)
> > with kernel 2.4.18-686
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cialug-admin@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:cialug-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tony Geerts
> > > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 9:57 AM
> > > To: cialug@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [Cialug] Debian and BIND
> > >
> > >
> > > Are you running woody/stable?
> > >
> > > try apt-get purge {package} this will get rid of config
> > > files. apt-get remove will leave config files around
> > >
> > > the package management system may still think that you have
> > > the files around since you  apt-get removed
> > >
> > > tony geerts
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Jonathan Bailey wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm setting up internal DNS on my Debian box. I've apt-get
> > > installed
> > > > bind9 and bind9-doc. When I look in /etc/bind for the config files,
> > > > all I find is named.conf, not even the default DBs... I've apt-get
> > > > removed it, removed directories, and reinstalled it, but it
> > > does not
> > > > want to put those config files there. Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----
> > > > Jonathan C. Bailey
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Aaron Thompson   Unix Systems Administrator, College of Natural Science
University of Northern Iowa                      Cedar Falls, IA  50614

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