{"id":2738,"date":"2013-08-01T14:04:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ed.gs\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2013-08-01T14:04:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T13:04:39","slug":"purge-old-apt-packages-using-dpkg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ed.gs\/2013\/08\/01\/purge-old-apt-packages-using-dpkg\/","title":{"rendered":"Purge Old apt Packages Using dpkg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you apt-get remove packages it can still leave behind old configs and other crap you&#8217;d probably want to get rid of, here&#8217;s how you do it.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly you can have a look at what&#8217;s been removed but not completely by running the following:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">dpkg -l | grep &#34;^rc&#34;<\/pre>\n<p>You can then extract the names from the list using:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">dpkg -l | grep &#34;^rc&#34; | cut -d &#34; &#34; -f 3<\/pre>\n<p>If we want to purge them all then we just run:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">dpkg -l | grep &#34;^rc&#34; | cut -d &#34; &#34; -f 3 | xargs sudo dpkg --purge<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you apt-get remove packages it can still leave behind old configs and other crap you&#8217;d probably want to get rid of, here&#8217;s how you do it. 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