Re: apt-get: purging a package that has already been removed?

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Tuesday 02 March 2004 10:46, Adam Funk wrote:
> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but...
>
> Suppose foo has already been removed without the --purge option, and I
> later want to purge it.
>
> # apt-get --purge remove foo
> gives the error that foo is not installed and therefore takes no action.
>
> I can work around this with
> # apt-get install foo
> # apt-get --purge remove foo
> but that seems silly.  Is there a "correct" way to purge foo?

aptitude seems happy enough to purge previously removed packages.

-- 
richard