dpkg tutorial – Package Manager for Ubuntu / Debian
dpkg or the debian package manager is package manager for debian and other debian based Linux distributions like Ubuntu. dpkg can be used for a variety of purposes Installation of packages Removal of packages Knowing the current state of a package Cloning a machine Let’s see how each of these can be done using dpkg. [...]
Remove all packages marked as rc by dpkg
Let’s see all the packages marked as rc by dpkg. Know more about the state rc. This state means that the configuration files are not yet removed. You can see how a single package can be removed. $ dpkg –list |grep “^rc” rc bsh 2.0b4-10ubuntu2 Java scripting environment (BeanShell) Versi rc devicekit-disks 007-2ubuntu6 abstraction for [...]
dpkg: purge versus remove
dpkg can be used to install, remove and check the current state of a package. Every package contains the following components package binaries configuration files dpkg has two options –remove and –purge. Both these options are used to remove package contents. But there is a significant difference between the two.’ dpkg –remove is used to [...]
Remove packages using dpkg
dpkg can be used to install packages remove packages know the current status of packages When we decide to remove a package, we must be clear that we want to remove or purge a package. When we remove packages using dpkg, it does not remove the configuration files and the state of a package will [...]
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