Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apt
just today i try to remove few packages and see that aptitude and also apt-get fail to remove what i want to remove: :~$ sudo aptitude purge gnome-core Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: eog gedit gedit-common libgnomevfs2-bin The following packages will be REMOVED: gnome-core{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 22.3MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] after aptitude completed, i startx and still enter into gnome session. a lot of gnome-core stuffs still there. (it was installed from server cd and only gnome-core was installed. not the whole gnome) same thing with xfce4: :~$ sudo aptitude purge xfce4 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: orage xfce4-mixer xfce4-mixer-alsa xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfprint4 xorg The following packages will be REMOVED: xfce4{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 18.5MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] after completed, there're still lots of xfce4 stuffs left behind. ** Affects: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- packages not completely removed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239972 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs