Install Real?]

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Apr 17 15:12:02 UTC 2006


Peter Garrett wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:21:02 +0300
> Avraham Hanadari <rufus at hanadari.net> wrote:
> 
> [ albi wrote]
> 
>> >is the install or install-attempt from realplayer 8 completely gone ?
>> >
>> >something like : sudo apt-get remove --purge realplayer
>> >is an idea
>> >  
>> >
>> remove--purge is not accepted.
> 
> There's a crucial space between "remove" and "--purge"  thus:
> 
> sudo apt-get remove --purge realplayer

except that, iirc, apt-get requires its options _before_ its command:
# apt-get --purge remove realplayer

Aptitude is so much simpler:
# aptitude purge realplayer

-- 
derek





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