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/ 3 Years ago, sun, october 24, 2021, 8:43:11
Whenever I try to use dpkg or apt-get, I get the warning:
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 12674 package 'jarnal':
error in Version string 'build901': version number does not start with digit
Looking at the /var/lib/dpkg/available file, I find the entry
Package: jarnal
Priority: optional
Section: non-free
Maintainer: David K. Levine <[email protected]>
Architecture: all
Version: build901
Depends: sun-java5-jre | sun-java6-jre
Recommends: sun-jai, sun-jai-imageio
Size: 11217466
Description: a Java Notetaker and PDF Annotator... <snip>
which corresponds to the /DEBIAN/control file in jarnal-build918_all.deb.
I installed this package about a year ago (before upgrading to 11.04), but can not remove it using apt or dpkg or various frontends.
locate find files installed in /usr/lib/jarnal/, but it looks incomplete - I think it might be a failed uninstall - since I remember playing with it once, so it must have been properly installed at some point.
Anyway, how can I cleanly remove both the files and the data stored by apt/dpkg from my system?
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