Re: Purge leaves some files

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:46:58AM +0200, Torok Balint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Thank you everyone for the help I received. > > I have tried to install/purge the same applications with > aptitude on another computer and all went well. I conclude > that the problem came into existan

Re: Purge leaves some files

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Torok Balint wrote: > Helo! > > Thank you everyone for the help I received. > > I have tried to install/purge the same applications with aptitude on > another computer and all went well. I conclude that the problem came > into existance becouse apt-g

Re: Purge leaves some files

Helo! Thank you everyone for the help I received. I have tried to install/purge the same applications with aptitude on another computer and all went well. I conclude that the problem came into existance becouse apt-get did not purge the package dependencies along with the original package. Apt-ge

Re: Purge leaves some files

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:09:39AM -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote: > I suspect that the package maintainers neglected the full purging script. > This > seems to be the case with a number of packages that I have encountered. They > either do not fully remove the binaries, libraries, and documentatio

Re: Purge leaves some files

There are two possibilities: (1) you still have a package installed that owns those files. This is likely the case for the stuff under /usr/share/doc. You can find out which packages have installed a file with dpkg -S (filename). (2) the package is buggy and doesn't clea

Re: Purge leaves some files

I suspect that the package maintainers neglected the full purging script. This seems to be the case with a number of packages that I have encountered. They either do not fully remove the binaries, libraries, and documentation, or else they do not remove menu entries, /etc/foo, and especially ent

Re: Purge leaves some files

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 02:32:39PM +0200, Torok Balint wrote: > Hello! > > I am not sure, but I thought when using apt-get remove --purge > that it will remove EVERY file taht the given package have installed. Well, I > have installed the packages apache and apache-doc, and then purged them. Bu

Purge leaves some files

Hello! I am not sure, but I thought when using apt-get remove --purge that it will remove EVERY file taht the given package have installed. Well, I have installed the packages apache and apache-doc, and then purged them. But the /usr/share/apache is still there. Then I installed apache2 and ap