Please recommend Linux software for checking completely removal of 3rd party software from the operating system, e.g.:

  1. I creating my filesystem's capture from the software, that I seeking;
  2. installing some 3rd party software;
  3. removing some 3rd party software;
  4. run some checking function from the software, that I seeking;
  5. see the results of checking, which have paths of some undeleted files from my disk.
  • Please specify the Linux distribution of the target system. – agc Aug 22 '19 at 9:28
  • @agc, the Debain Linux v. 9-10-based OS. – mshta Sep 3 '19 at 15:45
  • That helps, there are ways, but we still need more information. Please describe an example of how the 3rd party software might have been installed on Debian. – agc Sep 4 '19 at 4:25
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    @agc, via dpkg or via proprietary software installing tool. – mshta Sep 5 '19 at 11:50

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