Hello, after I had upgraded to Wheezy this week, I ran the command "apt-show-versions | egrep -v wheezy" and I was suprised to see the following result:
gcc-4.2-base 4.2.4-6 installed: No available version in archive libbind9-40 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive libc6-i686 2.11.3-4 installed: No available version in archive libdb4.5 4.5.20-13 installed: No available version in archive libdns45 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive libevent1 1.3e-3 installed: No available version in archive libisc45 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive libisccc40 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive libisccfg40 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive liblwres40 1:9.5.1.dfsg.P3-1+lenny1 installed: No available version in archive libvolume-id0 0.125-7+lenny3 installed: No available version in archive Obviously there are some very old packages still remaining from Lenny. First I ran the command on one of my machines, that used a mixed stable/unstable installation with Squeeze and was upgraded to Wheezy to ensure that the upgrade did, what it was supposed to do. But after I found this result I executed the same command on all my other machines, that were a pure Squeezy stable installation before and are now a pure Wheezy stable installation. The results were the same. On all my machines there are some packages from Lenny years ago. (Thas was the time, my servers were set up.) Theses packages also own some files, that are of no need any more (for example, libvolume-id0 0.125-7+lenny3 owns the file /lib/libvolume.0.....). I wanted to remove these packages and tried the command apt-get --purge remove libvolume-id0 but the command failed with the error "Unable to locate package ....". In the next step I added the Lenny repository again to my /etc/apt/sources.list from the archive repositories and ran a "apt-get update". My hope was that as soon as apt knows the old packages again, I would be able to remove them. But this was not true. This way I could remove some of the packages, but not all. Here is the question: How do I get rid of these packages and their files? It seems that these packages are in some kind of "zombie" state. Some commands like "dpkg-query" know the packages and can deal with some, other command like "apt-get" do not know them. Thank you, Matthias ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Nagel Willy-Andreas-Allee 1, Zimmer 506 76131 Karlsruhe Telefon: +49-721-8695-1506 Mobil: +49-151-15998774 e-Mail: matthias.h.na...@gmail.com ICQ: 499797758 Skype: nagmat84 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1819647.MpcqcloOA4@hek506
