On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Kailash wrote: > On Sunday 11 August 2013 10:39 AM, Dom wrote: > > On 11/08/13 03:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> > >>> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>>> Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original > >>>> question. > >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> > >>> > >>> Still an unhelpful question, esp when one knows the true meaning > >>> of SNAFU > >>> > >>>> have resulted in Gnome being install, too. More or less. So I > >>>> just did as root in /root a 'dpkg --download,' and then an > >>>> '--unpack' thinking that would uncompress the .deb file in /root > >>>> from which I would get the single svg file I needed, and then > >>>> just delete everything else. Simple. Right? Wrong. Now, I'm > >>>> stuck with about 4.5 megs of Gnome data, icons, > >>> > >>> AFAIU, a .deb file is just an 'ar' archive. > >>> > >>> As to how to recover after an unintentional unpack, ... dunno. > >>> Hopefully someone on this list knows now that the subject explains > >>> your predicament. > >> > >> Fortunately --unpack just "installed" files to their appropriate > >> directories, but didn't "trigger" or configure anything. Not all > >> that up on dpkg. Have always used apt-get. > >> > >> If I don't hear anything bad to the contrary in the next day or > >> so, I'm just going to use "--purge" to remove the package after > >> creating a copy of the file I need in a safe directory, then copy > >> the copy back after the purging. Hopefully, it will work. > > > > Good luck with that, it sounds like it will work. > > > > Alternatively you can get a list of the files contained in the .deb > > file using "dpkg -c debfile". With a little bit of wrangling that > > will give you a list of files and directories to delete - although > > you should only delete directories if they are empty. > > > Hi, > > As per the man pages: http://linuxreviews.org/man/dpkg/ > > dpkg -s <package-name> > > will give you the status of a package. As per the man file, it should > show the status as "unpacked".
Did this first thing after the "unpack." Status is "installed" however. Don't know why. > > dpkg --purge > > should work as expected. To make sure that it does work as expected > you can add add the --no-act option which will ensure that no changes > are written. Sometimes things don't work as expected, but "purge" seems the best option to "clean" my system of the unneeded files/directories. Yes, I was going to use "--no-act" (or similar) with verbose output to check for problems before doing it for real. > > caveat: Be sure to give --no-act before the action-parameter, or you > might end up with undesirable results. (e.g. dpkg --purge foo > --no-act will first purge package foo and then try to purge package > --no-act, even though you probably expected it to actually do nothing) Thanks. That point is made in the dpkg man file. After the initial unpack snafu, I read the man more thoroughly. Thanks for your advice. B -- 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/20130811093621.40d7d...@debian7.boseck208.net
