Re: Cannot Deinstall a Debian Package

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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:48 PM,  <CACook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 5 May, 2011 13:59:23 Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>> dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb | tar -C / -tf -
>
> I was expecting this to extract into the local directory, although it seems to have extracted into the final destinations. ÂCan't be sure. Âgrub-setup -V gives the new version.
>
>
>> change -t to -x to actually extract
>
> I don't see the distinction. ÂIt does seem to have extracted.

tar -t just lists the contents, -x actually does an extract.

It's plausible that the update you attempted before did actually
unpack the files to their locations, and only failed to run the
post-install scripts.
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