Re: dpkg status (deinstall) question

2005-06-09 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:13:47PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:25:08PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: Looking through the output of 'dpkg --get-selections', however, see a lot of packages with a status of 'deinstall.' Are these packages that should be uninstalled,

Re: dpkg status (deinstall) question

2005-06-09 Thread Chris Boot
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:13:47PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:25:08PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: Looking through the output of 'dpkg --get-selections', however, see a lot of packages with a status of 'deinstall.' Are these packages

Re: dpkg status (deinstall) question

2005-06-09 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:20:29AM +0100, Chris Boot wrote: Maurits van Rees wrote: So how *do* you purge packages that are already removed? The manual way would be to just fire up dselect, hunt down those packages and press underscore to select them for purging. Is there another more

Re: dpkg status (deinstall) question

2005-06-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:25:08PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: Looking through the output of 'dpkg --get-selections', however, see a lot of packages with a status of 'deinstall.' Are these packages that should be uninstalled, but for some reason are

Re: dpkg status (deinstall) question

2005-06-09 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:22:53AM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: Actually, on looking at dpkg -l, all 64 of these packages are marked as 'rc' (remove requested, config files still present). Unfortunately, none of those appear be removed by apt-get dselect-upgrade. That command wants to

Re: dpkg status (deinstall) question (SOLVED)

2005-06-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
Maurits van Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:20:29AM +0100, Chris Boot wrote: Maurits van Rees wrote: So how *do* you purge packages that are already removed? The manual way would be to just fire up dselect, hunt down those packages and press underscore to select them

dpkg status (deinstall) question

2005-06-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
Now that Sarge has gone stable and I have done an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' I am left with only a few packages held back. These are all, I believe, due to the fact that I have put them on 'hold.' I don't think that any of them are held back for other reasons. I have more packages on hold than

Re: dpkg status (deinstall) question

2005-06-08 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:25:08PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: Now that Sarge has gone stable and I have done an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' I am left with only a few packages held back. These are all, I believe, due to the fact that I have put them on 'hold.' I don't think that any of them are