[NCLUG] remove a 3rd party app -- can't seem to find it in packages

Aaron D. Johnson adj at fnord.greeley.co.us
Thu Apr 12 15:55:28 MDT 2012


I wrote:
> Also useful, if you know the name of a file that was in the package:
> 
>   dpkg -S /path/to/file
> 
>     OR
>  
>   dpkg -S somefilename

Also of note, rwp and I are both assuming this third party package is
being managed by the Debian package manager, dpkg.  If it wasn't, no
dpkg magic is going to help.

Bill: do you have the original installation package?  Was it installed
with apt-get, aptitude, downloading a tarball, from the Ubuntu
add-ons, or by some other method?

- Aaron



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