18 Mar
2018
18 Mar
'18
12:10 a.m.
On Saturday 17 March 2018 10:35:53 Frank Lienhard wrote:
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?
First off, co-admin is a bad idea, but you probably know that already. I could
not abide another person installing or removing items without my knowledge.
Only one person can be admin on my system, but then I don't like sharing
either computers or toothbrushes.
Second, did you try searching for *-tde to purge other items? Sometimes things
get removed as dependencies. Also, try searching with weird terms like
*trinity*, *tde*, etc., just to be sure.
Third, do you have another DE installed, or that you can install, like lxde or
whatever? Also slim is a good idea. If necessary, remove everything tde or
trinity (including the desktop-base-trinity and anything trinity-core or
tde-core) then start over. You can use another minimal DE to get online and
download packages.
Finally, I gave an account of my quick & dirty methods in a separate post;
this saves me a lot of time, and I don't keep fumbling round with problems
like this.
Bill
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