Comments on: Debian/Ubuntu Package management Using dpkg

By: Todd Fischer

Todd Fischer — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:13:14 +0000

I am trying to remove a partially installed package. There is an error in the package – I think the key error message is:

update-alternatives: unknown argument `–remove-all’

Now I can’t figure out how to get rid of the darn thing. I have tried:

sudo dpkg –purge remove ghostscript

which fails (with the above error message).

The state of of the package is:

dpkg -l | fgrep ghostsc
pF ghostscript 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.4 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF interpreter

What is the dpkg command to remove a faulty partially installed package?

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:30:33 +0000

I’ve looked everywhere for this: does anyone know how I can take the results of an “apt-cache depends xyz” command, and then easily determine which of those dependencies are (or are not) already installed?

By: Jimmo

Jimmo — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:10:01 +0000

Awesome!

Good and useful stuff you got here!

Thanx!

By: I don´t know

I don´t know — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:32:35 +0000

OK, how do I find out when a package was installed on my machine? Or if I want to sort my packages by install date?
Thanks,
Chip

ls -tl /var/lib/dpkg/info/ | less

By: Aston

Aston — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:47:50 +0000

Is it possible to upgrade installed package with something like dpkg upgrade ? (without apt-get)

By: saf

saf — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:25:08 +0000

This is great. Thanks.

By: mek

mek — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:14:56 +0000

dpkg-query
should do it -l|–list lists all Packages in ur /var/lib/dpkg/list, but purged

By: Jaap

Jaap — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:25:44 +0000

Please refer to aptitude i.s.o. dselect as being the text-based tool on top of dpkg.

By: chip

chip — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:42:06 +0000

OK, how do I find out when a package was installed on my machine? Or if I want to sort my packages by install date?
Thanks,
Chip