HowTo: Completely Remove Debian Applications With apt-get

gkoo — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:04:52 +0000

I have a testing server on which i fool around and test things.

I had to completely remove postfix from my server to reinstall it using other settings. Here’s how i did it :

apt-get –purge remove postfix

This will completely whipe out postfix from your server along with it’s dependencies.

I’ve been looking over for this for a long time. Hope it helps you too.

Howto: Increase apt-get’s cache limit

gkoo — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:33:12 +0000

Dynamic MMap ran out of room

getting the above error means that your apt cache is out of space. This is solved simply by editing

/etc/apt/apt.conf or /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf and adding the following line :

APT::Cache-Limit “10000000″; ( this is equal to 10m, set it to whatever you want or need )

That’s it but remember that by increasing the cache you might end up with a full drive so run:

apt-get clean

once in a while.