[Resolved]: removing a package

[John Dangler]

I needed to remove rosegarden && rosegarden2 ...

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:28 -0500, John Dangler wrote:
> I was informed by the rosegarden dev group this morning that the
> rosegarden packages in the Ubuntu repositories are way out of date (in
> fact the original is more than 10 years old!).
> 
> I used apt-get remove --purge rosegarden to remove it so that I could go
> and get the latest source and build a .deb for Ubuntu to submit for the
> repo's...  The package is fairly large, but I got this on apt-get remove
> -
> 
> root at croatus:~# apt-get remove --purge rosegarden
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   rosegarden*
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 36.9kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
> (Reading database ... 118551 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing rosegarden ...
> 
> At this point, it should be gone - BUT
> 
> root at croatus:~# /usr/bin/rosegarden
> Warning : Petal library could not be found in TCLLIBPATH
> (/usr/lib/tclmidi /usr/lib/rosegarden/petal )
> Not installing Filter Menu
> 
> (And the package is running under gnome!)
> 
> 
> root at croatus:~# apt-get -s install rosegarden
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   rosegarden
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Inst rosegarden (2.1pl4-2 Ubuntu:6.06/dapper)
> Conf rosegarden (2.1pl4-2 Ubuntu:6.06/dapper)
> 
> (This shows that apt thinks the package is _really_ gone)
> 
> root at croatus:~# apt-get remove --purge rosegarden
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package rosegarden is not installed, so not removed
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> root at croatus:~#
> 
> (This confirms that apt thinks it's gone)
> 
> But it's still here!
> 
> What did I do wrong in trying to remove it??
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