Re: bind vs. bind9

[Adam Aube <aaube01@baker.edu>]

On Monday 02 February 2004 02:26 pm, Bernd Prager wrote:
> I just replaced bind with bind9:
> "apt-get install bind9" and it told me that bind was removed and bind9
> was installed. But bind is still listed in my package list.
> "dpkg -l" now reports:

> rc  bind           8.3.3-2.0woody Internet Domain Name Server
> ii  bind9          9.2.1-2.woody. Internet Domain Name Server
> ii  bind9-host     9.2.1-2.woody. Version of 'host' bundled with BIND
> 9.X

> I assume the're still open dependecies with the old bind!?

If there were dependencies, apt-get wouldn't have removed bind.

> How do I find out what's wrong and fix that?

If you look at the top of a dpkg -l output (try "dpkg -l | less"), you'll 
notice that status "rc" means that the package was removed, but some 
configuration files were left.

You can get rid of those configuration files with "dpkg -P bind". Also, 
when removing packages, you can use "apt-get remove --purge [package 
name]" to do this in one step.

Adam