On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 19:31:06 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Frustrated by lack of functionality of installed package wine since I > upgraded to i386 lenny, I purged removed all specific packages of wine > and reinstalled, also my database application. Still hanging while > commanding 'search'. Then I planned a more drastink purging. > I first commanded > apt-get --purge remove wine > > Then I explored what will happen from command > > apt-get --purge remove wine* > > The output screen from this command is shown below. Clearly I did not > continue as it will remove gnome parts, in particular gnome-session, > which is what I use after startx. Any suggestion? > Reading package lists... > Building dependency tree... > Reading state information... > Note, selecting libwine-capi for regex 'wine*' > Note, selecting libchewing-data for regex 'wine*' > Note, selecting libchewing3-data instead of libchewing-data > Note, selecting libswing-layout-java for regex 'wine*'
[...] For apt-get the regular expression 'wine*' will match any package whose name contains the string "win". You are mixing up shell globbing patterns and regular expressions; see "man 7 regex" for the correct regex syntax. (Moreover, things can get really messy if you have any files in the current directory whose names start with "wine"; see the section "Pathname Expansion" in the manpage of bash.) Try apt-get -s --purge remove 'wine.*' and if this shows the right output then you can run the same command without the "-s" to actually remove and purge these packages. (Note: I have no idea if puring and reinstalling all those wine packages will solve your original problem.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
