When I run dpkg -l
, I get a list of installed packages, and I'm comparing that to a "model" system that I'm attempting to reproduce. There are several packages appearing in that list, for example emacs23
, that I wish to remove. When I run apt-get remove emacs23
, however, I'm told that the emacs23
package isn't installed:
# apt-get -y remove emacs23
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package emacs23 is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 97 not upgraded.
Running apt-get update
did not help:
Updated information:
# dpkg -l emacs23
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
rc emacs23 23.3+1-1ubuntu The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ user interfa
# apt-cache policy emacs23
emacs23:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 23.3+1-1ubuntu9.2
Version table:
23.3+1-1ubuntu9.2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
23.3+1-1ubuntu9.1 0
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main amd64 Packages
23.3+1-1ubuntu9 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
# dpkg -l | grep emacs23
rc emacs23 23.3+1-1ubuntu9.2 The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ user interface)
How do I resolve this apparent confusion?
dpkg -l emacs23
to your question.apt-cache policy emacs23
add output to Qdpkg -l emacs23
andapt-cache policy emacs23
output added.emacs23
not there...what is your exact Q....emacs23
shows up indpkg -l
. The system thinks it is there. How do I get ti to not show up indpkg -l
?