trying to remove wicd

[tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>]

I want to get wicd off my system, but am having a problem. All the
installer utilities say that it's not installed, but 'which' and other
things tell a different story:

root@debian:~# which wicd
/usr/sbin/wicd
root@debian:~#

Also, in spite of the installer messages, there are lots of
wicd-related files in the system:

tom$ locate
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/wicd.conf
/etc/default/wicd
/etc/init.d/wicd
/etc/rc0.d/K01wicd
/etc/rc1.d/K01wicd
/etc/rc2.d/S18wicd
/etc/rc3.d/S18wicd
/etc/rc4.d/S18wicd
/etc/rc5.d/S18wicd
/etc/rc6.d/K01wicd

And on and on for about 300 lines of file names

When I do wicd or wicd-client as root, the stuff runs (and does
nothing but give error messages). wicd is unknown to non-root users:


Here is the apt-get message:

root@debian:~#/home/tom/system/wireless# apt-get purge wicd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'wicd' is not installed, so not removed       !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
root@debian:~#/home/tom/system/wireless#

Likewise with aptitude and dpkg.



How do I get rid of the stuff?

My goal is to do wireless connection using the command line, but I
want the wicd stuff off the system before I try to do it.