Phantom Kernel Packages on Ubuntu 08.04/08.10 beta

[Charles Curley]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:02:05AM -0600, Richard Esplin wrote:
> 'aptitude purge' removes configuration files.

I had my laptop's hard drive die, so I couldn't experiment further for
a while. However, I just upgraded a machine from HH to II beta, and
saw the problem again. Hence the late reply.

Thanks, that got rid of the phantom packages. Even after I removed a
package, running "aptitude purge" got rid of the phantom package
gracefully.


> 
> Adding '-o Aptitude::Purge-Unused=true' tells aptitude to get rid of 
> configuration files for packages it automatically removes.

If I want that to work every time, where do I add it?

> 
> Richard Esplin
> 
> On Sunday 03 August 2008 19:07:24 Brad Midgley wrote:
> > Charles
> >
> > > I have a bunch of phantom packages, i.e. ones I've suncessfully
> > > removed with aptitude, but which the package database seems to think
> > > are still installed:
> >
> > you can get rid of the config files too with
> > apt-get purge xx
> > there might be a way to get aptitude to purge--it probably defaults to
> > leave config files alone.
> >
> > Brad
> <snip>
> 
> /*
> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
> Don't fear the penguin.
> */

-- 

Charles Curley                  /"\    ASCII Ribbon Campaign
Looking for fine software       \ /    Respect for open standards
and/or writing?                  X     No HTML/RTF in email
http://www.charlescurley.com    / \    No M$ Word docs in email

Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0  809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
Url : http://plug.org/pipermail/plug/attachments/20081006/1313e173/attachment.bin