On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:02:05AM -0600, Richard Esplin wrote: > 'aptitude purge' removes configuration files.
I had my laptop's hard drive die, so I couldn't experiment further for a while. However, I just upgraded a machine from HH to II beta, and saw the problem again. Hence the late reply. Thanks, that got rid of the phantom packages. Even after I removed a package, running "aptitude purge" got rid of the phantom package gracefully. > > Adding '-o Aptitude::Purge-Unused=true' tells aptitude to get rid of > configuration files for packages it automatically removes. If I want that to work every time, where do I add it? > > Richard Esplin > > On Sunday 03 August 2008 19:07:24 Brad Midgley wrote: > > Charles > > > > > I have a bunch of phantom packages, i.e. ones I've suncessfully > > > removed with aptitude, but which the package database seems to think > > > are still installed: > > > > you can get rid of the config files too with > > apt-get purge xx > > there might be a way to get aptitude to purge--it probably defaults to > > leave config files alone. > > > > Brad > <snip> > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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