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wotter
Asked: 2019-10-28 02:17:56 +0800 CST

Command to get the list of files deleted by apt purge but not by apt remove?

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I would like to know in advance which files would be deleted if I ran apt purge <pkg> and that would not be deleted by running the apt remove <pkg> command.

Is there some CLI voodoo better that running both command with -s and comparing the results?

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  1. Best Answer

    If the only difference between remove and purge are the config files and only the config files (still not 100% sure about that), this should answer my question:

    dpkg-query --showformat='${Conffiles}\n' --show <package>

    Am I wrong?

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