[Evolution] Removing and reinstalling evolution on Debian

Rodrigo Moya rodrigo@novell.com
Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:53:31 +0100


On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:41 -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
> I tried to remove and reinstall evolution to see if it fixed a problem I
> was having, but I couldn't seem to get to a "virgin" install. Evolution
> always remembered my previous settings. Here are the steps I took:
> 
> shut down evolution
> apt-get remove --purge evolution
> mv ~/.evolution ~/something_else
> apt-get install evolution
> 
> Why doesn't this delete my settings?
> 
because they are stored in gconf, so you need to also:

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/evolution
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@novell.com>