Quote Originally Posted by MemMaker
@stephen
thanks for the purging commands..
well I got one mor Question about this:
How do I get apt-get do remove the
configuratoin dirs even when they aren't
empty?
Making sure that you are removing the right directory or you will screw up the system rm -rf /non/empty/directory/tree. I usually check just to make sure that it is only the configuration files left some packages don't clean up as well as they should and orphan the config files, it is usually only one or two files left in the whole directory tree anyway so you could just leave them there if you want.