Re: dpkg package list

[Hinko Kocevar <hinkocevar@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Wayne Topa<linuxtwo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hinko Kocevar wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to remove packages with 'pn' and 'rn' from the 'dpkg -l'
>> listing?
>>
>> # dpkg -l libera*
>> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
>> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
>> uppercase=bad)
>> ||/ Name                                        Version
>>                     Description
>>
>> +++-===========================================-===========================================-======================================================================================================
>> rn  libera-gbeth                                <none>
>>                     (no description available)
>> pn  libera-pll                                  <none>
>>                     (no description available)
>
> Sure is.  You just have to read the dpkg | aptitude | apt-get man pages and
> look the the purge command.
>

Right.
I managed to get rid of the second line by issuing:
# dpkg --forget-old-unavail

But the first one changed status to (don't know for sure when):
un  libera-gbeth                                <none>
                     (no description available)

# dpkg -P libera-gbeth
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libera-gbeth which isn't installed.
# dpkg --forget-old-unavail
# dpkg -l libera-gbeth
un  libera-gbeth                                <none>
                     (no description available)
# dpkg --force-all -r libera-gbeth
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libera-gbeth which isn't installed.
# dpkg -r libera-gbeth
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove libera-gbeth which isn't installed.

Thank you,
HK

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