Uninstall packages installed thru armbian-config/softy
Hi, my base problem is syncthing not starting on boot. But in trying to solve that it would be useful to uninstall and reinstall syncthing via armbian-config and hence softy.
But armbian-config/softy does not let me uninstall syncthing (or for that matter samba, which I also don't want or need on that machine).
Nor does apt:
sudo apt-get remove --purge samba
reports "Package 'samba' is not installed, so not removed", though armbian-config/softy shows it as ins
I ended up with subtly different syntax. I have a real HDD on /mnt/data and I backing up to it so I must exclude it from the backup:
sudo rsync -aAxXh --exclude={'dev','lost+found','media','mnt','proc','run','sys','tmp'} --stats --info=progress2 --delete / /mnt/data/armbian-backup
The main difference though is that I just include the directory names. Prefixing them with / would make you think they are root relative whereas they are actually relative to the source director