Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

[Horatio Leragon]

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 From: The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm>
To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies
 

> That depends on a number of other factors.

> Literally speaking, dpkg will simply unpack the package's files 
> into...................

> If the preinst, postinst, or other processing scripts rely on the.............

> If one of the files installed by the package is already on the 
> system,..............

> Once the "--force" install is complete, if you try to run the 
> installed.........................

I appreciate your taking the time to write a detailed explanation. I feel I'm 
more educated already :)