Re: manually purge .deb file

["Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net>]

erchamion.beren@gmail.com wrote:
> hello, i compiled firefox from source and made a .deb file via alien. while 
> installing the deb file i hit cancel, somehow i cannot remove this file, 
> dpkg , aptitute or apt-get says that my firefox packet should be removed but 
> no file related to my firefox packet,
> how can i completely purge it ?
> the log:
>
> 0 packages upgraded, 29 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 37.3MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
> Writing extended state information... Error!
> E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the firefox-1.5.en-us.linux package. 
> This might mean you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch)
> E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?
>
> Thanks.

I'm not 100% sure (you don't provide the command you used to actually 
install the package), but I would try:

dpkg --purge firefox-1.5.en-us.linux

-Roberto

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