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Comment 5 for bug 244598

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In , Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: Bug#305064: apt-get --purge does not purge, need to use dpkg --purge instead

severity 305064 wishlist
merge 150831 305064
thanks

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 07:19:51PM +0100, J. Grant wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.28.1
>
> Hello,
>
> I am expencing a problem purging on my uptodate testing computer.
>
> I noticed that these commands do not scuessfully work:
>
> # apt-get --purge remove iamerican wamerican
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package iamerican is not installed, so not removed
> Package wamerican is not installed, so not removed
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> now2g:/media/c# dpkg -l |grep american
> rc iamerican 3.1.20.0-4 An American English dictionary for ispell
> rc wamerican 5-4 American English dictionary words for
> /usr/s
> now2g:/media/c#
>
>
>
> The only way I can successfully purge them is to use:
>
> # dpkg --purge iamerican
> (Reading database ... 108977 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing iamerican ...
> Purging configuration files for iamerican ...
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde
> debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl
> /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5
> /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7.)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
> now2g:/media/c# dpkg -l |grep american
> rc wamerican 5-4 American English dictionary words for
> /usr/s
> now2g:/media/c# dpkg --purge wamerican
> (Reading database ... 108977 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing wamerican ...
> Purging configuration files for wamerican ...
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde
> debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl
> /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5
> /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7.)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
>
>
> # dpkg -l |grep american
>
> This does not show anything, so they have now been purged.
>
> N.B. Please include my email address in any replies.
>
> Kind regards
> JG
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