Re: upgrading irda-common

[Taro Fukunaga <tarozax@earthlink.net>]

Sergio Brandano wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  two days ago, irda-common had a new package to download. When
>  installing it, the removal of the previous one failed.
>  The messages are included below. I tried forcing the removal with no
>  reinstallation, but it failed too.
>

Try dpkg --purge irda-common.

Check to see if it really is gone:

dpkg -l irda-common

If you see rc on the left side, that means the configuration files are still around and I can't remember how to
really really get rid of everthing including the entry in the database (I'm assuming all of this is in a database).

Hope this helps,

Taro