Well I finally managed to get rid of it!
All I can say is that if apt had just tried good old dpkg -P ...
So in this case we see that apt is probably trying a remove + purge
instead of a plain purge or something.
# aptitude purge ~c
The following packages will be REMOVED:
iproute{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove iproute which isn't installed
# apt-get purge iproute
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
linux-image-3.12-1-686-pae
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
iproute*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove iproute which isn't installed
# dpkg -l iproute
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture
Description
+++-===============================-====================-====================-===================================================================
rc iproute 20121211-2 i386
networking and traffic control tools
# dpkg -P iproute
(Reading database ... 144149 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing iproute (20121211-2) ...
Purging configuration files for iproute (20121211-2) ...
# dpkg -P iproute
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove iproute which isn't installed
Apt 1.0
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