removing dpkg

[Bill Marcum]

On 2009-05-09, Noah <admin2 at enabled.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Is there any way to remove the "deinstalled" packages like exim4 and 
> exim4-daemon-light?
>
> # dpkg --get-selections | grep exim
> exim4                                           deinstall
> exim4-base                                      install
> exim4-config                                    install
> exim4-daemon-light                              deinstall
>
They probably are already removed. Use "dpkg --status" or
"apt-cache policy" to see whether a package is installed.