<b>How to remove debian packages</b>

The normal way to remove a Debian package is to use

  apt-get remove name
Or
  aptitude remove name

But in this way you are left with a bunch of configuration files. You can remove
individual package configuration with:

  apt-get purge name

Or all those packages that has been removed, but not completely:

  dpkg -l | grep ^rc | cut -d' ' -f3|xargs dpkg -P