Quote Originally Posted by Ghandalfar
--purge

see man apt-get and man dpkg
doesnt help
#dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Installed-Size} ${Package}\n' | sort -n
.....
23032 libwine
26824 gimp
31908 mozilla-browser
33048 kernel-image-2.4.22-xfs
35904 emacs21-common
39476 tetex-extra
53868 tetex-base

# apt-get --purge remove tetex-base
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Package tetex-base is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 353 not upgraded.

the same is with the all other packges I want to remove !!?!?