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<title>swim - PREPARING YOUR INSTALLATION FOR APT
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<link rev=made href="mailto:mttrader@access.mountain.net">
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swim - chapter 8<br>
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PREPARING YOUR INSTALLATION FOR APT
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<pre>usage: swim --audit
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swim --status
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swim -C</pre>
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<P>
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If you are using <strong>apt</strong> with <strong>swim</strong>, and this
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is the first time you are using it with your installation, check your live
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installation with this major mode. This is a call to <strong>dpkg -C
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(--audit)</strong>, and will show any packages which are not properly
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configured or installed. If you get any output, make corrections. The goal
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is to get absolutely no output whatsoever because it is under these
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conditions that apt will work properly. See the <A href="ch-query.html#s-vrrm">REMOVING AN INSTALLED PACKAGE - VIRTUAL OPTIONS
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, section 9.8</A> with
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<strong>-q</strong> to remove the offending packages. You may have to
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remove the package by hand under unusual situations like when it is not
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just dependencies (see <code>-T</code>) between packages keeping the package
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from being removed perhaps due to a broken script (see
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<code>--scripts</code>). In an extreme case you could manually remove the
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entry for this package from the <em>/var/lib/dpkg/status</em> database,
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and hunt down and remove all the files associated with the package with
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<strong>swim's -l</strong> option. When you are done if you still want
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some of the packages you removed, use <strong>apt</strong> to reinstall
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them with <strong>swim's -xyz</strong> option. Also, <strong>apt</strong>
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provides its own built-in method to clean up your system, and will provide
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instructions, but you still may have to do some of the cleaning yourself
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as discussed above.
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<hr>
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swim
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- <A href="index.html#copyright">
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Copyright � 1999 Jonathan D. Rosenbaum
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</A>
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<br>
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<A href="index.html#toc">Contents</A>; <A href="ch-query.html">next</A>; <A href="ch-notinstalled.html">back</A>.
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<br>
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<address>15 June 1999<br>
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Jonathan D. Rosenbaum<A href="mailto:mttrader@access.mountain.net">mttrader@access.mountain.net</A></address>
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