Re: How to get rid of orphaned data in package database?

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

"Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> writes:

> Am Montag 19 Oktober 2009 schrieb C M Reinehr:
>> 
>> You might try the deborphan package (Orphaned package finder)
>> 
>> "deborphan finds packages that have no packages depending on them. The
>>  default operation is to search only within the libs and oldlibs sections
>>  to hunt down unused libraries."
>> 
>> HTH
>> 
>> cmr
>> 
>
> Oh, its not the packages, I want to get rid off, but the entries in dpkg 
> database. They appear, although they are no more available.
>
> Greets
>
> Hans

Reinstall the packages in question. If dpkg thinks you have files in
/emul but they are not there then something is broken.

MfG
        Goswin