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  1. Bug #244598
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Comment 4 for bug 244598

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In , Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: Bug#219567: "apt-get remove --purge" on deinstalled package

severity 219567 wishlist
merge 219567 150831
thanks

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:49:06AM +0100, Dr. Andreas Krüger wrote:

> I've "apt-get remove leafnode" yesterday. Today, I'm having a problem with
> the leafnode config file /etc/cron.daily/leafnode. (I filed that problem as
> bug 219559). I decided to rid myself of both the problem and that leafnode
> config file, so I tried
>
> apt-get remove --purge leafnode
>
> However, apt-get did not remove all leafnode config files, as I had
> expected it to. It simply declined to do anything. The reason given was:
>
> Package leafnode is not installed, so not removed
>
> I fell back to "dpkg --purge leafnode". That one did what I had expected
> "apt-get remove --purge leafnode" to do: /etc/cron.daily/leafnode is now
> gone for good.

Duplicate, merging.

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 - mdz