Bob Proulx wrote:
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
Sure you can, I just tried it. I did dpkg -l | grep ^rc, picked a random package and dpkg --purged it and it purged successfully. You can't apt-get remove --purge a removed package, but you can dpkg --purge it.