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Problem with apt, apt-get autoremove is not removing all directories

Asked by jbowen7

I was just doing an install of tor, and went to remove privoxy with 'sudo apt-get autoremove privoxy', so that I could use another program instead.. I rebooted after awhile and was noticing that my boot time from grub into gdm was slow so I took a look at /etc/init and /etc/rc*.d and I noticed that privoxy is still in those directories.. furthermore locate doesn't reveal directories belonging to privoxy..

tried apt, aptitude and synaptic.. (apt and aptitude were run using root priv.) Directories remain, locate doesn't reveal them.

Any Ideas?

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Ed S (edgar-b-dsouza) said : 		#1

Try 'sudo apt-get purge privoxy' ?

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jbowen7 (jbowen7) said : 		#2

Thanks Ed, purge doesn't work with apt-get but I just tried it with aptitude and it does. Below is a list of what works and what doesn't.

I believe that the issue might be with apt since apt-get autoremove doesn't work and will look further into the problem, but for anyone who has found this issue, 'aptitude purge' seems to be the way to go.

all commands run from root:

These Commands do not work:
apt-get purge
apt-get autoremove
apt-get remove
aptitude remove

So far only this works:

aptitude purge

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