Re: aptitude purge
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 00:33, Tammo Schuelke wrote:
> Hi,
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> I recently removed the etch version of amanda and installed a newer one
> because of a blocksize problem which was resolved there.
In Debian you'd want to use the package manager for installation and not make
installs outside of it, like using 'make install'.
Perhaps you can make a simple backport of amanda yourself and install it.
Perhaps you can ask for a backports-users list.
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> I didn't purge though, which means that I have this now:
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> dom0:~# aptitude search ~c
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> c amanda-client
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> c amanda-common
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> c amanda-server
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> Is there a way to remove these entries from the apt database without
> actually purging the packages, which would probably remove the newer
> version including its configuration?
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> I cannot put the packages on hold since they are not installed and I
> sometimes like to use aptitude purge ~c after uninstalling a lot of
> packages...
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> Thanks, Tammo
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