Re: how to clean up dpkg ?
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:06:07AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 09:04, Moti Levy wrote:
> > 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.
>
> "man apt-get" really would explain alot, specifically "-s"
> and "-u".
But nevertheless it still cannot be used to purge a package that is
already removed but has configuration files remaining on the system. (I
tested.)
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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