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 [...]