"apt-get remove" don't remove the stuff?

howard chen howachen at gmail.com
Sat Nov 29 19:03:02 UTC 2008


Hello all,

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Mario Vukelic
<mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
> So, possibly the proftp package leaves scripts in /etc/init.d and/or
> links in /etc/rc?.d when uninstalled. I think this would constitute a
> packaging bug.
>
> But if "dpkg -l proftp" shows the package as not installed, then this
> should not matter much. Delete these scripts/links manually.
>

I have tried again:

sudo apt-get install proftpd
sudo apt-get purge proftpd

But /etc/init.d still contains "proftpd"...

I think it might be the package bug...


Thanks anyway.




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