Install Real?]

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Tue Apr 18 04:40:36 UTC 2006


On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:12:02 -0300
Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> > 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

Not so - I use apt-get remove --purge <packagename>  regularly , and it
does what one would expect.

> 
> Aptitude is so much simpler:
> # aptitude purge realplayer

Agreed, that is simpler :)

Peter

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