On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 08:06:33 +0800 =?utf-8?B?56mN5Li55bC8?= Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org> wrote:
> > All I can say is that if apt had just tried good old dpkg -P ... > > So in this case we see that apt is probably trying a remove + purge > instead of a plain purge or something. I can confirm that in some cases, "apt-get purge" doesn't purge an uninstalled package whereas "dpkg --purge" works: # apt-get purge gnome-games Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gnome-games* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove gnome-games which isn't installed # dpkg --purge gnome-games (Reading database ... 141051 files and directories currently installed.) Removing gnome-games ... Purging configuration files for gnome-games ... I could not figure-out in what way the package state of such packages differ from the normal case where a apt-get remove, followed by an apt-get purge just works as expected.
