[PLUG] problems in wake of botched Lyx install

Tony Rick tonyr42 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 20:55:58 UTC 2010


On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Mike Connors <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Randy Stapilus wrote:
> > I guess I'm wondering first of all if there's some sort of system
> > restore that takes me back to the pre-LyX install period? (The system
> > had been working fine up until then.) Or what the next best, probably
> > meaning simplest, option might be?
> >
> "apt-get clean" will only clean downloaded pkgs from apt pkg cache.
>
> Whenever something like this happens to me I run "apt-get purge <pkg name>"
> this will uninstall the pkg(s) and all it's config files.
>

Also, 'apt-get autoremove' will delete packages that aren't needed anymore
(ew, leftover extra pakages installed as requirements for a specific package
that was installed tnen removed later).

- tony



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