Re: how to uninstall packages installed using dpkg -i



On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:23, paragasu <paragasu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
i download a deb package somewhere, it is for ubuntu. out of curiosity
i installed this package on my debian lenny. It doesn't work well, and
i want to remove it from my system.

how to do it?


thanks


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dpkg -P <package-name>
For example, if you dpkg -i ~/download/aa_x.y.z_i386.deb
"dpkg -P aa" will remove everything installed by the deb package
note the command is not dpkg -P ~/download/aa_x.y.z_i386.deb


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