RE: help with apt-get purge

2007-07-17 Thread Tony Heal
, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Zach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 12:05 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: help with apt-get purge On 6/23/07, Christopher Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem

Re: help with apt-get purge

2007-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Zach wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: To see for yourself, try it on any -data package. That's true but I like controlling exactly what is purged and I prefer CLI over GUI. apt-get is a CLI. Try 'apt-get remove --purge somepackage'. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with apt-get purge

2007-06-23 Thread Christopher Nelson
On 2007-06-23, Zach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [rearranging for legibility] On 6/22/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/21/07, Mathias Brodala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 21.06.2007 15:55: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421

Re: help with apt-get purge

2007-06-23 Thread Zach
On 6/23/07, Christopher Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with this solution being that you have to work out dependancy chains by yourself, where an apt-get/aptitude purge will work them out for you. To see for yourself, try it on any -data package. That's true but I like

Re: help with apt-get purge

2007-06-22 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/21/07, Mathias Brodala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 21.06.2007 15:55: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me that apt-get purge now works (0.7.2) but it complains that it's an invalid operation. Dunno if you didn't see it but the last

Re: help with apt-get purge

2007-06-22 Thread Zach
also you can always do: dpkg --purge zach On 6/22/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/21/07, Mathias Brodala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 21.06.2007 15:55: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me that apt-get purge now

help with apt-get purge

2007-06-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me that apt-get purge now works (0.7.2) but it complains that it's an invalid operation. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: help with apt-get purge

2007-06-21 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 21 June 2007 15:55, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me that apt-get purge now works (0.7.2) but it complains that it's an invalid operation. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com I think the last

Re: help with apt-get purge

2007-06-21 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 21.06.2007 15:55: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me that apt-get purge now works (0.7.2) but it complains that it's an invalid operation. Dunno if you didn’t see it but the last mail in this report says that the patch providing the