On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 11:07 +1000, Michael Lake wrote: > Peter Hardy wrote: > > Hey hey. > > > > On Wed, Michael Lake wrote: > >>>> "apt-get remove $PACKAGENAME" doesn't work for you? > >> The above won't remove a package if there are dependencies. > > > > It should. What version of debian / apt do you have? > > To pick an example at random: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% sudo apt-get remove compiz-core > > Ah, maybe the difference is that in my case its an upsteam dependency > (something > depends on what I want to remove) whereas in the example above its a > downsteam > dependency (what I want to remove depends on something).
`apt-get remove` will *only* handle upstream dependencies. The autoremove command that etch doesn't seem to support can do both upstream and downstream. > This is what I get: > > # cat installed.packages | grep evol | cut -f1 > evolution-common > evolution-data-server > evolution-data-server-common > evolution-webcal > # > > # cat installed.packages | grep evol | cut -f1 | xargs dpkg -P > (Reading database ... 79929 files and directories currently installed.) > Would remove or purge evolution-common ... > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of evolution-data-server: ekiga > depends on > evolution-data-server. > dpkg: error processing evolution-data-server (--purge): > dependency problems - not removing > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of evolution-data-server-common: > evolution-data-server depends on evolution-data-server-common (= > 1.6.3-5etch1). > dpkg: error processing evolution-data-server-common (--purge): > dependency problems - not removing > Would remove or purge evolution-webcal ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > evolution-data-server > evolution-data-server-common > # $ sudo dpkg -r evolution-common dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of evolution-common: evolution depends on evolution-common (= 2.22.3.1-0ubuntu1). dpkg: error processing evolution-common (--remove): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: evolution-common $ sudo apt-get remove evolution-common [sudo] password for phardy: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: evolution evolution-common evolution-exchange evolution-plugins 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 106MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? apt marks evolution-common, and everything that depends on it, and any/all downstream packages for removal. For giggles, `try apt-get remove libc6` and see what it tells you. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
