Can't boot 14.04
Jim
jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Mon Nov 7 23:00:17 UTC 2016
On 11/07/2016 03:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 22:18:08 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:45:24 -0600, Jim wrote:
>>> On 11/07/2016 09:15 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>>> sudo apt-get purge $(dpkg -l nvidia* | grep ii | cut -d" "
>>>> -f3)
>>> Says no packages found matching <each of the files shown by ls>
>>> To clear it says it can't find any of the nvidia files shown by ls.
>
> Oops, I wasn't careful, this is tricky,
>
> cd into a directory were no nvidia* packages are located, before running
> this command, since dpkg -l with * behaves different, if a directory
> contains nvidia* packages. To ensure that really all nvidia* packages
> get removed, at best change into an empty directory, e.g. create one
> and then run the purge command.
>
>
OK, that appears to have worked. Many processing message scrolled by. At
the end it prompted me to run auto remove and I did.
At this point I assume you want me to move back to
/var/cache/apt/archives/ before running the apt --no-install command?
Regards, Jim
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