Re: Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status
On Sunday 18 Tishrey 5772 19:32:50 debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
wrote:
> What is the output of the command
>
> grep 'Status:' /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep -v installed
>
A bunch of lines:
Status: deinstall ok config-files
> ? You could try to remove the annoying entries, e.g., with an emacs kbd
> macro. But, I would try the macro first on a copy of the file
> /var/lib/dpkg/status and make a backup of the original before using the
> edited file.
If I every played with that, it was at least 25 years ago :-)
What would I be removing/replacing in this file?
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