purge mailman (remove everything)
thufir
hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Sun Jan 5 00:34:35 UTC 2014
I'm having a permissions problem with mailman, so tried to purge it, but
some directories aren't empty, so it doesn't actually remove mailman:
thufir at dur:~$
thufir at dur:~$ sudo apt-get purge mailman
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-
ldap
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mailman*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 35.0 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 207667 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mailman ...
* Stopping Mailman master qrunner
mailmanctl [ OK ]
find: `/usr/lib/mailman': No such file or directory
Purging configuration files for mailman ...
find: `/usr/lib/mailman': No such file or directory
Purging files from ucf
database ............................................... done.
dpkg: warning: while removing mailman, directory '/var/lib/mailman/
archives/private' not empty so not removed
dpkg: warning: while removing mailman, directory '/var/lib/mailman/
archives/public' not empty so not removed
dpkg: warning: while removing mailman, directory '/var/lib/mailman/qfiles'
not empty so not removed
dpkg: warning: while removing mailman, directory '/var/lib/mailman/lists'
not empty so not removed
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for man-db ...
thufir at dur:~$
thufir at dur:~$ sudo apt-get purge mailman -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'mailman' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-
ldap
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
thufir at dur:~$
thufir at dur:~$
I can manually remove /var/lib/mailman easily enough, but isn't the point
of purge to remove those directories? It's my intention.
The man page says:
purge
purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed
and purged (any configuration files are deleted too).
is there a version of remove which will take out everything mailman
installs? I would naively take that to be purge, but I suppose /var/lib/
mailman isn't actually a config file.
thanks,
Thufir
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