Hello, 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. > > libdb4.5 4.5.20-13 installed: No available version in archive > > libdns45 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive > > libevent1 1.3e-3 installed: No available version in archive > > libisc45 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive > > libisccc40 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in > > archive > > libisccfg40 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in > > archive > > liblwres40 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in > > archive > > libvolume-id0 0.125-7+lenny3 installed: No available version in archive > > Those are indeed all dead and gone from the archive. > > > Theses packages also own some files, that are of no need any more (for > > example, libvolume-id0 0.125-7+lenny3 owns the file > > /lib/libvolume.0.....). I wanted to remove these packages and tried > > the command > > > > apt-get --purge remove libvolume-id0 > > > > but the command failed with the error "Unable to locate package ....". > > This is also very strange. > > > In the next step I added the Lenny repository again to my > > /etc/apt/sources.list from the archive repositories and ran a "apt-get > > update". My hope was that as soon as apt knows the old packages again, > > I would be able to remove them. But this was not true. This way I > > could remove some of the packages, but not all. > > > > Here is the question: How do I get rid of these packages and their > > files? It seems that these packages are in some kind of "zombie" > > state. Some commands like "dpkg-query" know the packages and can deal > > with some, other command like "apt-get" do not know them. > > 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? And I do not have these *.deb-files. > > Cheers, > Sven > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Nagel Willy-Andreas-Allee 1, Zimmer 506 76131 Karlsruhe Telefon: +49-721-8695-1506 Mobil: +49-151-15998774 e-Mail: matthias.h.na...@gmail.com ICQ: 499797758 Skype: nagmat84 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/6843284.X0sKlPyrXL@hek506
