Clear everything and start fresh

[Derek Atkins]

Cam Ellison <cam at ellisonet.ca> writes:

> 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.

Alas, that wont delete your gconf/dconf settings, so it wont clear out
the old data because that data is not actually controlled by the
package.

> Cheers
>
> Cam

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-derek

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