due to a misunderstanding with my co-admin, the following happend: the trinity sources where removed in the sources.list and afterwards 2 Dist upgrades where performed: wheezy(7) -> jessie(8) jessie(8) -> strech(9) now I'm unable to get rid of the installed trinity packages: apt-get purge *-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package *-trinity E: Regex compilation error - Invalid preceding regular expression E: Couldn't find any package by regex '*-trinity' But there are installled packages: dpkg -l | grep trinity ii akregator-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 RSS feed aggregator for KDE ii amor-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 a Trinity creature for your desktop ii ark-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+0 amd64 graphical archiving tool for Trinity ii arts-trinity 4:3.5.13.2-0debian7.0.0+1 all sound system from the official KDE release [lots more] Any advie, how to procede? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting