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apt-get remove purge wicd still there

Hi,

I'm trying to remove wicd from ubuntu 10.4 with apt-get remove wicd and apt-get purge wicd but its still in the start menu and runs when I click it?

How do i get uninstall wicd?

Thanks

try to remove through synaptic package manager by selecting it and mark it for removal

You can NOT remove or purge with apt-get, it is only for install programs, dpkg is what you should use for that.

Regards

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Originally Posted by craigevil (Post 4594710)

What distro are you running? Doh yes apt-get purge is what you would use.
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Stay wake too long and late looking through too many different distros without enough coffee generate that kind of output, glady somebody is wake :) !!

Regards

Quote:

Originally Posted by ukiuki (Post 4594127)

You can NOT remove or purge with apt-get, it is only for install programs, dpkg is what you should use for that.

Regards

What distro are you running? Doh yes apt-get purge is what you would use.

There are several wicd packages, the ones that show up in Menu are:
wicd-gtk - wired and wireless network manager - GTK+ client
wicd-kde - Wired and wireless network manager - plasmoid

Although they should be removed when you remove 'wicd' which is just a metapackage.

Try running update-menus as user not root.

You can also do:

Code:

apt-get purge wicd*