Unwanted Updates

[johnpd]

Hi, I am new to LMDE but have been using other flavours of Linux for a while. I have a question that has been bugging me for a while and now that I have just installed LMDE it has risen it's head again. I keep getting updates for software that I have deleted. For example: I use Chrome, so I 'completely removed' Firefox via the Synaptic Package Manager. Today I get notified of updates for my system including on for a language pack for Firefox. I unchecked it and installed the other updates, the update tool keeps telling me to install this language pack. Why?

Sorry if this is really stupid but it is bugging me to death!

Many thanks in eager anticipation

John

[mikecrosoft]

Hello John. First at all I'm not a LMDE user but I have some experience with Debian and I'm a usual Crunchbag Statler user, so I hope I'm right on my comments. I think the problem is that you have left installed some firefox integration packages, so you'll need to purge them all, right now I'm writing from Mint Lisa and I can see in synaptic the following firefox related packages installed (maybe this will vary on your system):firefox, firefox-globalmenu, firefox-gnome-support, firefox-locale-en. Therefore my advise is to check if there is installed any firefox related package and if so purge it, maybe you can try to purge all firefox packages with the following command, first run it without root permissions and in simulation mode to see what will happen and if you are happy with the output run it with sudo and remove the simulation option -s, or use synaptic to completely remove them manually:

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apt-get -s purge firefox-*

Regards!.

[zerozero]

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[äxl]

This command will delete every left over dependency (use the -s option like mikecrosoft advises):

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sudo apt-get autoremove

There are more rude ways to get rid of old stuff like bleachbit or deborphan ...