Hello Norbert, thank you for your testing and results.
This issue is caused by the fact that Ubuntu server and Ubuntu desktop use
different types of awk. Ubuntu server uses gawk (GNU awk) by default while
Ubuntu desktop ships with mawk which has less features than gawk and does not
have support for the -i argument hence the error "awk: not an option: -i".
If your workflow depends on ppa-purge I recommend installing gawk (apt install
gawk) and this will fix the issue temporarily while I get a permanent fix for
ppa-purge.
side note: I am not sure why there is a difference in the default awk
installed/used between Ubuntu desktop and server maybe it is an
oversight and should be labeled as a bug? or maybe there is another
reason that someone could clarify? To my knowledge gawk is the default
version of awk on most linux distros and has all the features of mawk.
I will add gawk as a dependency to ppa-purge but I still believe that
someone should look into why different versions of awk are shipped
between server and desktop since this means shell scripts are not
compatible between server and desktop by default.
** Changed in: ppa-purge (Ubuntu Mantic)
Status: Fix Committed => In Progress
** Changed in: ppa-purge (Ubuntu Noble)
Status: Fix Released => In Progress
** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-mantic
** Tags added: verification-failed verification-failed-mantic
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