Re: aptitude not working after using alien
On 10 Nov 2002, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org> [2002-11-10 14:54:11 -0500]:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > >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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Sweet! That is a very useful tidbit to know.
>
> Thanks for pointing that out.
>
> Bob
Thanks to all who replied. As I posted earlier in a followup, I managed
to delete the offending entry in /var/lib/dpkg/available.
AC
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