Clear everything and start fresh

[Cam Ellison]

On 21/03/14 07:44 AM, Luis Costabile wrote:
> I'm test driving gnucash and trying different things before I put in real data.
> What's a way to clear everything and start fresh?
>
> I tried doing apt-get remove gnucash and deleting $HOME/.gnucash  and
> the mycompany.gnucash files, but everything i install gnucash again
> and run it,  the FILE Pull down displays the company files I've used,
> how can I clear this too?
>
>
Apt-get remove is overkill (Derek and Geert provide much better 
approaches), but if you're going to go that route, you need to add 
--purge between apt-get and remove, thus:

apt-get --purge remove gnucash.

That deletes any file that is part of the package or is created by it.

Cheers

Cam