Re: Purging deb

[Alexander Wallace <awallace@rwsoft-online.com>]

try apt-get remove lgtoclnt --purge

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Jose Manuel Perez wrote:

> Hi all.
> I've installed a package in my Potato but it crashed during
> installation and I'd like to uninstall it. I've tried
> dpkg --purge <package>, with and without --force-??? option, but
> I've not found the way to remove it. Allways I've got:
>
> siul04:~# dpkg --purge lgtoclnt
> (Leyendo la base de datos ... [reading database ...]
> 44862 ficheros y directorios instalados actualmente.) [4862 files and
> directories installed]
> Desinstalando lgtoclnt ... [Deinstalling lgtoclnt ...]
> rmdir: número de argumentos insuficiente [rmdir: insuficient number of
> arguments ]
> Pruebe `rmdir --help' para más información. [Try ?? for more information]
> dpkg: error al procesar lgtoclnt (--purge): [dpkg: error processing ...]
>  el subproceso post-removal script devolvió el código de salida de error 1
> [subprocess post-removal script returns error code 1]
> Se encontraron errores al procesar: [errors where found procesing:]
>  lgtoclnt
>
> I have to say that this package was originally a rpm, and
> I've converted it to deb. Someone knows how to remove that
> package.
>
> Thanks in advance,
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