Package: apt Version: 0.8.14.1 Severity: important If a package is removed keeping the config-files (using "apt-get autoremove"), it is further impossible to completely purge the package (using "apt-get purge"). Using "dpkg -P" does the job.
Example: root@isis:~# dpkg -s guile-1.8 Package: guile-1.8 Status: deinstall ok config-files Priority: optional Section: lisp Installed-Size: 44 Maintainer: Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org> Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.8.8+1-2 Config-Version: 1.8.8+1-2 Provides: guile Depends: guile-1.8-libs (= 1.8.8+1-2), libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libgmp10, libltdl7 (>= 2.4) Suggests: guile-1.8-doc Conflicts: guile1.4, libguile-dev (<= 1:1.4-24) Description: GNU extension language and Scheme interpreter Guile is a Scheme implementation designed for real world programming, providing a rich Unix interface, a module system, an interpreter, and many extension languages. Guile can be used as a standard #! style interpreter, via #!/usr/bin/guile, or as an extension language for other applications via libguile. Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ root@isis:~# apt-get purge guile-1.8 Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait Construction de l'arbre des dépendances Lecture des informations d'état... Fait Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVÉS : guile-1.8* 0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 0 non mis à jour. root@isis:~# dpkg -P guile-1.8 (Lecture de la base de données... 169147 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.) Suppression de guile-1.8 ... Purge des fichiers de configuration de guile-1.8 ... Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour « menu »... -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "amd64"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Install-Recommends "1"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::Acquire ""; APT::Acquire::Translation "environment"; APT::Authentication ""; APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; APT::NeverAutoRemove ""; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^firmware-linux.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-firmware$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^gnumach$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^gnumach-image.*"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections ""; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "oldlibs"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/oldlibs"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/oldlibs"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/oldlibs"; APT::Periodic ""; APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0"; APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "0"; APT::Update ""; APT::Update::Post-Invoke ""; APT::Update::Post-Invoke:: "touch /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp 2>/dev/null || true"; APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success ""; APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success:: "[ ! -f /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket ] || /usr/bin/dbus-send --system --dest=org.debian.apt --type=signal /org/debian/apt org.debian.apt.CacheChanged || true"; APT::Archives ""; APT::Archives::MaxAge "30"; APT::Archives::MinAge "2"; APT::Archives::MaxSize "500"; Dir "/"; Dir::State "var/lib/apt/"; Dir::State::lists "lists/"; Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list"; Dir::State::mirrors "mirrors/"; Dir::State::extended_states "extended_states"; Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Dir::Etc "etc/apt/"; Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list"; Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d"; Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d"; Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf"; Dir::Etc::netrc "auth.conf"; Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d"; Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences"; Dir::Etc::preferencesparts "preferences.d"; Dir::Etc::trusted "trusted.gpg"; Dir::Etc::trustedparts "trusted.gpg.d"; Dir::Bin ""; Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; Dir::Media ""; Dir::Media::MountPath "/media/cdrom"; Dir::Log "var/log/apt"; Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log"; Dir::Log::History "history.log"; Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently ""; Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "~$"; Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.disabled$"; Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.bak$"; Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.dpkg-[a-z]+$"; Acquire ""; Acquire::cdrom ""; Acquire::cdrom::mount "/media/cdrom"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Invoke ""; DPkg::Pre-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper pre-install; fi"; DPkg::Post-Invoke ""; DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi"; DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -d /var/lib/update-notifier ]; then touch /var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp; fi; if [ -e /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available ]; then echo > /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available; fi "; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10"; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; DPkg::Tools ""; DPkg::Tools::Options ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2"; RPM ""; RPM::Pre-Invoke ""; RPM::Pre-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper pre-install; fi"; RPM::Post-Invoke ""; RPM::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi"; Unattended-Upgrade ""; Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern ""; Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern:: "origin=Debian,label=Debian-Security,archive=stable"; CommandLine ""; CommandLine::AsString "apt-config dump"; -- /etc/apt/preferences -- Package: * Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages Pin-Priority: 110 -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii libc6 2.11.2-13 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-6 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: ii apt-doc 0.8.14.1 Documentation for APT ii aptitude 0.6.3-4 terminal-based package manager (te ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co pn dpkg-dev <none> (no description available) pn lzma <none> (no description available) ii python-apt 0.7.100.3+b1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii synaptic 0.75.1 Graphical package manager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org