> the same scenario trying to upgrade X on a couple Debian machines. It > seems that dpkg --remove doesn't do as complete a job as dpkg --purge.
True. > It would seem that --remove leaves some scripts/data/info behind that > may make subsequent reinstalls skip installing some files from within a > package, maybe it thinks they are already there. --purge seems to wipe That's the point actually. So you don't have to make your choices all over again. Really, it's not a bug, it's a featureTM. > the slate completely clean. At any rate, KDE 3.0.2 is now working > wonderfully. Thanks for your help! Seems like the upgrade should take care of this better. That is, if the upgrade needs to do a purge, it should do it automatically. I wonder how to report/fix this. I'm glad that things are working. Fred
