Debian: even after these steps, cannot install a package with Synaptic

dedec0 · 08-19-2018, 01:33 PM

Right now, my system (Debian 9 - stretch) has these packages in dpkg rc status:

Code:

ffmpeg		7:3.2.5-1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:amd64
		0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu5.3
libqt3-mt
		3:3.3.8-e-0debian7.0.0+0
libvdpau-va-gl1:amd64
		0.4.2-1
opera		11.64.1403
pulseaudio	10.0-1
rtkit		0.11-4+b1

Commenting each one:

ffmpeg - no idea where this came from

gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:amd64 - no idea where this came from

libqt3-mt - I use a program that uses qt3, qgo 1.5.4

libvdpau-va-gl1:amd64 - no idea where this came from

opera - I tried to use opera 11 here, but I failed to do so; and I probably have copied the settings I had in another computer before using this one from scratch; this probably explains this 'residual config' for opera

pulseaudio - no idea where this came from

rtkit - no idea where this came from

Ideas for what I should do to discover the origin of these files? dpkg.log* files and filesystem available dates? Something easier than manually checking, finding and comparing all these?

How dpkg points which package was uninstalled but left config files? Or, if it checks all config files in system and home dirs, how does it relate config files or folders, and the package where it should have come from?

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pan64 · 08-19-2018, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dedec0

Offtopic question:

The command

awk '/^rc/'

will accept any regex between the slashes?

Which regex standard (or type)?

Yes, it accepts regexp. Unfortunately the awk-style regexp should be used here, which is a specific case. But in general it works.