-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/16/08 10:34, Adam Hardy wrote: > Raj Kiran Grandhi on 16/03/08 03:33, wrote: >> Adam Hardy wrote: >>> I want to understand what apt-get does with the files of a package >>> I'm having problems with, but there seems to be stuff going on that >>> the man page isn't telling me about. >>> >>> I installed tomcat5.5 and then tomcat5.5-admin. >>> >>> There seemed to be some serious problem with the tomcat manager >>> installed by tomcat5.5-admin, which stopped tomcat starting, so I >>> tried to de-install it. >>> >>> I ran apt-get remove tomcat5.5-admin >>> >>> The problem though remained - the tomcat manager settings were >>> preventing a clean start-up. >>> >>> So I ran apt-get --purge remove tomcat5.5-admin >>> >>> This made no difference. So I ran >>> >>> apt-get --purge remove tomcat5.5 >>> >>> to clear the whole lot. However it let various tomcat files in >>> /usr/share/tomcat5.5/ which I manually deleted. >> >> Those files that you deleted probably belong to some other package >> that tomcat5.5 depends on. So, apt has no way of knowing that the >> files are deleted. >> >>> >>> I re-installed tomcat, but the bootstrap.jar - one of the main >>> start-up binaries - was not reinstalled. >>> >> >> You can try 'dpkg-query -L tomcat5.5' to see a list of files that come >> with the package. Also 'dpkg-query -S bootstrap.jar' should tell you >> which package provided the bootstrap.jar file. >> >> You can also try apt-cache depends tomcat5.5 to get a list of all the >> dependencies and reinstall them with 'apt-get --reinstall install' > > You are totally correct. I had not expected tomcat to be disassembled > into different packages in that way - the missing files were part of > libtomcat5.5-java. > > It was a useful lesson in package management, I'll not those commands.
This should also help: dpkg -l | grep tomcat - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Working with women is a pain in the a**." My wife -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH3UoFS9HxQb37XmcRAlPLAKC/ZAEwCtDVcBhSSraPmpXBtRLhMQCggJ57 sUu119cI+nWZ8Azd+3jippM= =AuUy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
