Re: aptitude not working after using alien

[Travis Crump]

Bob Proulx wrote:

John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-10 07:44:22 -0600]:

Aptitude is just a front-end for the package management system.  You need
to purge the broken package.  Try 'dpkg --purge packagename'.

Yes.  But if the package has already been uninstalled then you can't
purge it.  You must install it again and then remove it using purge.
A rather strange and unintuitive thing but so it is.

Bob

Sure you can, I just tried it. I did dpkg -l | grep ^rc, picked a random package and dpkg --purged it and it purged successfully. You can't apt-get remove --purge a removed package, but you can dpkg --purge it.


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