RE: dpkg --purge pkgs
Thanks Roberto,
Problem solved :)
iuri
-----Original Message-----
From: Roberto C. Sanchez [mailto:roberto@familiasanchez.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:58 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: dpkg --purge pkgs
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:48:44PM -0300, Iuri Sampaio wrote:
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> I try to uninstall the follow package running the command:
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> desktop:~# dpkg --purge aolserver4
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> but I get this error message:
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> desktop:~# dpkg --purge aolserver4
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> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of aolserver4:
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> aolserver4-nsopenssl depends on aolserver4 (>= 4.0-1).
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> dpkg: error processing aolserver4 (--purge):
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> dependency problems - not removing
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> Errors were encountered while processing:
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> aolserver4
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> Does anyone know how to get rid of it I want to install a fresh aolserver
> version, and I believe I need to clean up the house first!
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You are misusing dpkg. It is a low-level interface to the package
management system. You should use something like apt-get, aptitude or
synaptic. You can use something like this:
apt-get remove --purge aolserver4
apt-get install aolserver4
OR
apt-get install --reinstall aolserver4
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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