Quote Originally Posted by none1
Ok I just want to confirm this.

If I want to completely remove something, I do the following:

apt-get remove [package]
dpkg -P [package]

Those two will completely remove the [package] off my system right?
apt-get --purge remove [package] the other one is correct. There are times when the removal script fails and it will tell you that it could not remove a directory because it is not empty in that case you just remove it by hand with rm -rf /path/to/directory/that/failed/to/remove.