Re: How to remove/purge outdated packages that are removed from repositories (apt-get --purge remove fails)
Hello,
Am Donnerstag 09 Mai 2013, 12:59:20 schrieb Sven Joachim:
> On 2013-05-09 11:41 +0200, Matthias Nagel wrote:
>
> > after I had upgraded to Wheezy this week, I ran the command
> > "apt-show-versions | egrep -v wheezy" and I was suprised to see the
> > following result:
> >
> > gcc-4.2-base 4.2.4-6 installed: No available version in archive
> > libbind9-40 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive
> > libc6-i686 2.11.3-4 installed: No available version in archive
>
> This is rather strange: if your architecture is i386, libc6-i686 is
> still in archive; if you have another architecture, it never existed.
> What does "dpkg --print-architecture" say?
>
It is amd64.
> > libdb4.5 4.5.20-13 installed: No available version in archive
> > libdns45 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive
> > libevent1 1.3e-3 installed: No available version in archive
> > libisc45 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive
> > libisccc40 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive
> > libisccfg40 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive
> > liblwres40 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive
> > libvolume-id0 0.125-7+lenny3 installed: No available version in archive
>
> Those are indeed all dead and gone from the archive.
>
> > Theses packages also own some files, that are of no need any more (for
> > example, libvolume-id0 0.125-7+lenny3 owns the file
> > /lib/libvolume.0.....). I wanted to remove these packages and tried
> > the command
> >
> > apt-get --purge remove libvolume-id0
> >
> > but the command failed with the error "Unable to locate package ....".
>
> This is also very strange.
>
> > In the next step I added the Lenny repository again to my
> > /etc/apt/sources.list from the archive repositories and ran a "apt-get
> > update". My hope was that as soon as apt knows the old packages again,
> > I would be able to remove them. But this was not true. This way I
> > could remove some of the packages, but not all.
> >
> > Here is the question: How do I get rid of these packages and their
> > files? It seems that these packages are in some kind of "zombie"
> > state. Some commands like "dpkg-query" know the packages and can deal
> > with some, other command like "apt-get" do not know them.
>
> My suggestion is to try "dpkg --purge <package>", but I would also like
> to know how you got yourself into this situation.
Mmh, OK. But in this case I need the actual *.deb-file, don't I? And I do not have these *.deb-files.
>
> Cheers,
> Sven
>
>
>
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