Re: How to remove/purge outdated packages that are removed from repositories (apt-get --purge remove fails)
On 2013-05-09 13:21 +0200, Matthias Nagel wrote:
> 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.
So you installed the i386-only libc6-i686 package with
"--force-architecture", or what did you do?
>> 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?
No, you don't.
Use "dpkg --audit" to find out other packages from foreign arches.
Cheers,
Sven
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