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Re: how to clean up dpkg ?



Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:43:45AM -0400, Moti Levy wrote:

I'm trying ( in-vain so far ) to install gnome2 ,
i've had gnome on this computer and run apt-get remove gnome ...
when i run dpkg -l |grep fnome i get :
rc  gnome-core     1.4.1-1        Common files for GNOME core apps
ii  gnome-desktop- 2.0.3-1        Common files for GNOME 2 desktop apps

can somene explain what rc means and what ii means ?


rc: Desired action = remove, current state = configuration files still
present. 'dpkg --purge gnome-core' will remove the configuration files
too.

ii: Desired action = install, current state = installed.


i've looked through the apt-howto and the dpkg man page but cant find any refrence to it .


If you just run 'dpkg -l gnome-core' you'll see a guide at the top of
the output.


also , lets say i wanted to start from scratch is there a way to delete all *gnome* packages ? apt-get remove `dpkg -l |grep gnome |awk '{print $2}'` but that does not work .


You can add --purge to apt-get's command line to have it remove packages
rather than purging them. Also, use COLUMNS=200 or so to make sure that
package names aren't truncated.

Cheers,


great ,
but now if i want to completly remove gnome-core and run apt-get remove -purge gnome-core i get :
workstation:/# apt-get remove --purge gnome-core
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package gnome-core is not installed, so not removed
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3  not upgraded.


forgive my newbieness ....
Moti


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