Re: purging packages from 32 bit chroot

["Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Montag 18 Juni 2007 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow:
> 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

I guess, the sysntax is wrong.  Type: apt-get --purge remove package, so that 
apt does not search after a package named "--purge".


> > 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.


Regards

Hans