Re: having a problem removing a package
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:10:46PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 19 aug 12, 13:28:38, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >
> > Ok, first I'd do an "apt-get clean"
>
> Why would you delete the downloaded packages cache because a package
> fails to remove/purge?
When I saw this:
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> /etc/init.d/bandwidthd: 19: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> invoke-rc.d: initscript bandwidthd, action "stop" failed.
> dpkg: error processing
I thought just to be on the safe side it might be a good idea to clean
out any old cruft. And considering everything seemed to be uptodate
except for 2 packages I presumed there would be no harm done.
Why keep old ones around anyway?
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