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Old 03-30-2006
Uninstalling programs?

How can I uninstall a program the most efficient way? So that I get rid of all the man pages etc. too? I'm running debian.

/Richard
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Old 03-30-2006
See the man page for dpkg - check out the deinstall option.

Suggest you also read about the Debian package management
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