Re: --purge when package already gone ?

From: David Z Maze (dmaze_at_debian.org)
Date: 08/04/03

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    Christophe Courtois <christophe@courtois.cc> writes:

    > Slrn is gone a long time ago on my small server, but cron.weekly
    > complains it is not there. I could rm the script, but that's not
    > 'clean'. I'd like to do a 'apt-get remove --purge', but apt-get
    > doesn't want to. Any way through the standard tools ?

    You should be able to 'dpkg --purge slrn'. The other possibility is
    that the file really is randomly left over (it might not be a
    dpkg-managed conffile, and the package's scripts could be sloppy), in
    which case 'rm' should be able to address your problem sufficiently
    cleanly. 

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