since he removed a line from the generated list without going through the normal procedures i suggested this line in hopes it would reset the list to accurately reflect the status of the packages. although dpkg wouldn't have registered that installation i wasn't sure if a fresh install/removal via apt would find and remove any of his other files.Īs for deselect-upgrade command, that is just the command i suggested to try to get apt to accurately reflect and update the status of things. i was also a bit concerned about how it would affect his install via the tar.gz installation. i just didn't have the heart to ask him to try it again so soon. your suggestion to run the install and purge was something i was going to recommend after he got all his updates completed and i did some further investigation. You are correct that the final command in the sequence would do nothing about removing the package. i constantly add and remove apps to try to figure out what's happening on other reader's computers and my list would contain dozens if not hundreds of old apps if it retained them in history. If you run the command and then inspect the file there are very few, if any, packages marked deinstall. i am fairly certain deinstall is a status for packages awaiting removal and would probably be found by synaptic's residual config filter. one of the reasons i asked about what the generated list contained was that i would like to know whether it was listed as deinstall, install or something else. he tried, or at least i suggested, using purge but apparently it couldn't break through and get it done for some reason.Ĭreating a list of the current status of all packages was my last attempt at getting dpkg/apt to forget trying to complete the installation. The problem was that the app would never complete an install.
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