Apt 2.0

[chimak111]

TuxDigital's This Week in LINUX has a bit on APT 2.0: https://youtu.be/SHISgDS182A?t=509

I found the part about apt-patterns nice.

For example, apt list ~c lists all residual config files. Running the command in Kubuntu 20.04 ...

dkb@dkb-kuff:~$ apt list ~c | nl

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

    1  Listing...
    2  accountwizard/focal,now 4:19.04.3-0ubuntu1 amd64 [residual-config]
    3  akonadi-backend-mysql/focal,focal,now 4:19.04.3-0ubuntu4 all [residual-config]
       ...
   44  linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-9-generic/focal,now 5.4.0-9.12 amd64 [residual-config]
   45  mariadb-common/focal,focal,now 1:10.3.22-1 all [residual-config]
   46  pim-data-exporter/focal,now 4:19.04.3-0ubuntu1 amd64 [residual-config]
   47  pim-sieve-editor/focal,now 4:19.04.3-0ubuntu1 amd64 [residual-config]
   48  printer-driver-gutenprint/focal,now 5.3.3-4 amd64 [residual-config]
   49  python3.7-minimal/now 3.7.6-1ubuntu2 amd64 [residual-config]
dkb@dkb-kuff:~$

I guess sudo apt purge ~c would get rid of them. This seems more convenient than using dpkg.

[GreyGeek]

Using '~c' would eliminate the outside chance that some's home account could be matched with just ~c

[chimak111]

Using '~c' would eliminate the outside chance that some's home account could be matched with just ~c

Well, it's in the context of sudo apt purge ….

Anyway, the longer (and safer) version is sudo apt purge ?config-files.