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From: Daniel Lublin <lists@lublin.se>
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Subject: dpkg --purge unable to purge uninstalled package
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I was told that "dpkg --purge foo" should be able to purge the
remaining configurationsfiles etc from the (removed, uninstalled but
nor purged) package foo. It does not do that, so is it a bug, or is it
no supposed to work?
# dpkg -l | grep ^rc.*cupsy
rc libcupsys2 1.1.20final+cv Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
# dpkg --purge libcupcsys2
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libcupcsys2 which isn't installed.
# dpkg -l | grep ^rc.*cupsy
rc libcupsys2 1.1.20final+cv Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
I must say that the man page really does not hint about it. But I read
it somewhere, and judging from the remaining stuff /var/lib/dpkg/foo.*
it should be possible. I would be happy if it worked!
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Subject: Re: Bug#312302: dpkg --purge unable to purge uninstalled package
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On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 11:04 +0200, Daniel Lublin wrote:
> I was told that "dpkg --purge foo" should be able to purge the
> remaining configurationsfiles etc from the (removed, uninstalled but
> nor purged) package foo. It does not do that, so is it a bug, or is it
> no supposed to work?
>=20
It's supposed to work, and indeed does if you don't typo the package
name <g>
> # dpkg -l | grep ^rc.*cupsy
> rc libcupsys2 1.1.20final+cv Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - lib=
s
> # dpkg --purge libcupcsys2
^
try taking this 'c' out
> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libcupcsys2 which isn't inst=
alled.
> # dpkg -l | grep ^rc.*cupsy
> rc libcupsys2 1.1.20final+cv Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - lib=
s
Scott
--=20
Have you ever, ever felt like this?
Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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