remove residual config packages/files from the command line

[oldos2er]

To save space in on my laptop, I've actually uninstalled aptitude...

Ouch. apt-get is not a stand-alone program like aptitude is.

[pythonscript]

Ouch. apt-get is not a stand-alone program like aptitude is.

Is it possible to completely remove apt-get and simply use aptitude, instead? Are they both equally powerful? Out of curiosity, why does canonical include both by default in ubuntu?

[oldos2er]

Is it possible to completely remove apt-get and simply use aptitude, instead? Are they both equally powerful? Out of curiosity, why does canonical include both by default in ubuntu?

I'm not a dev, so I can't really answer your questions, sorry.

My opinion as a home desktop user is that aptitude is more powerful than apt-get, but I am certainly not all-knowledgable about the subject.

[pythonscript]

That's settled, then. Thanks for the help everyone!

[afrodeity]

This is interesting, although there is probably a safer method out there.

http://www.johnlewis.ie/remove-resid...u-a-one-liner/