On 03/17/2018 06:39 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Am Samstag, 17. M�rz 2018 schrieb Frank Lienhard: >> due to a misunderstanding with my co-admin, the following happend: >> >> the trinity sources where removed in the sources.list and afterwards 2 >> Dist upgrades where performed: >> >> wheezy(7) -> jessie(8) >> jessie(8) -> strech(9) >> >> now I'm unable to get rid of the installed trinity packages: >> >> apt-get purge *-trinity >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> E: Unable to locate package *-trinity >> E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression >> E: Couldn't find any package by regex '*-trinity' >> >> But there are installled packages: >> dpkg -l | grep trinity >> ii akregator-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 >> amd64 RSS feed aggregator for KDE >> ii amor-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 >> amd64 a Trinity creature for your desktop >> ii ark-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 >> amd64 graphical archiving tool for Trinity >> ii arts-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+1 >> all sound system from the official KDE release >> [lots more] >> >> Any advie, how to procede? > > # COLUMNS=1000 aptitude purge $(dpkg -l|grep trinity|awk '{print $2}') Not really: open: 159; closed: 237; defer: 65; conflict: 127 .The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) bsd-mailx 2) cron 3) docbook-xml 4) enscript 5) exim4 6) exim4-base 7) exim4-daemon-light 8) festival 9) festlex-cmu 10) festlex-poslex 11) festvox-kallpc16k 12) foomatic-db-engine 13) git 14) gnuift 15) gnuift-perl 16) gthumb 17) gthumb-data 18) lib32gcc1 19) lib32stdc++6 20) libc6-i386 [up to 99), most not trinity related] and about 30 unresolved, which will stay unresolved, which stay unresolved, which is ok, because I'll think, I'll handle that with apt-get. > > or > > # COLUMNS=1000 aptitude purge $(dpkg -l|grep '4:3.5.13.2-0debian7'|awk '{print $2}' > > > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@... >> For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... >> Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ >> Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting >> >> > > >