Re: purging packages from 32 bit chroot

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Seb <spluque@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed that chroot inside my AMD64 system, and I see that some packages
> have residual configuration files (according to synaptic).  But if I do
> 'apt-get remove --purge package', apt tells me that the package is not
> installed and nothing is done.  This does work in my main AMD64 system
> for purging packages.  Any ideas?  Thanks.

That afaik never worked for removed packages. You can use dpkg --purge
there.

MfG
        Goswin

PS: you can make --purge default for apt so you don't get into this
state in the first palce.