the other method is
apt-get remove packagename
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:23:52 -0700, Mircea Luca said:
> Andy wrote:
> >
> > I want to get rid of software on my Storm install that
> > I don't/want anymore. I went into the package manager
> > and when I try top remove/purge anything it comes back
> > with an error about the file sizes not being the same
> > and aborts the process. Is there anything that can be
> > done beside a clean install?
> >
> > __________________________________________________
>
> Try this on a console as root.
>
> apt-get update dselect
>
> then go back and try SPM.
> SPM looks more like a interface to dselect(I may be wrong here but I
> don't think so) but anyway dselects database and apt-get's ones get
> sometimes out of sync and syncing them is a good idea and may solve your
> problems.
> Basically the culprit here is apt with came with it's own databse
> as opposed to dselect who uses dpkg's database if apt-get method is
> not selected.
> It's not very clear since I'm not totally clear about it but as a
> very general idea this is how things are .
>
>
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