Re: --purge when package already gone ?
From: David Z Maze (dmaze_at_debian.org)
Date: 08/04/03
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:48:13 -0400
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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