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Re: aptitude not working after using alien



John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> [2002-11-10 07:44:22 -0600]:
> Aptitude is just a front-end for the package management system.  You need
> to purge the broken package.  Try 'dpkg --purge packagename'.

Yes.  But if the package has already been uninstalled then you can't
purge it.  You must install it again and then remove it using purge.
A rather strange and unintuitive thing but so it is.

Bob

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