Ubuntu
dpkg package

  1. Bug #46530
  2. Comment #39

Comment 39 for bug 46530

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Helge Stenström (h-stenstrom) wrote :

This happened to me too, today, when I ran apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade for the first time in about a month. I have a bunch of xine packages installed, and they are listed when I do
dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii | grep -v ^rc

One advice given in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=231752 was to remove offending packages (as per above) with
dpkg --purge remove <those packages listed before>
but I usually use "apt-get remove" or Synaptic to remove packages. Is there a difference?

My hardware is a HP xw9400 with AMD Opteron processor, if that matters.
$ uname -rvm
2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686
Running Ubuntu 8.10.