Re: dkpg --purge question..

[Roberto Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net>]

Quoting Ishwar Rattan <ishwar@pali.cps.cmich.edu>:

> 
> I installed sylpheed-clasws using apt-get and want to remove it.
> 
> # dpkg --purge sylpheed-claws
> ..
>  complains that sylpheed-claws-i18n depends on sylpheed-claws
>  and won't be removed
> ..
> 
> #dpkg -purge sylpheed-claws-i18n
> ..
>  complains that sylpheed-claws depends on sylpheed-claws-i18n
>  and won't be removed
> ..
> 
> Any pointers?
> -ishwar
> 

Sure.  Don't use dpkg unless you are installing a pacakge from a local .deb
file.  dpkg does not handle *any* dependency resolution.  To purge your
package, use: "apt-get remove --purge sylpheed-claws"

-Roberto Sanchez

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