Problem to remove squid

[burkass]

hi,,, i have a problem to remove squid. Here the chronology :


apt-get remove squid
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
squid-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
squid*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 201 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 1638kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 108455 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing squid ...
FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'

Squid Cache (Version 3.0.STABLE1): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.008 seconds = 0.008 user + 0.000 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0
invoke-rc.d: initscript squid, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing squid (--purge):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'

Squid Cache (Version 3.0.STABLE1): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.012 seconds = 0.008 user + 0.004 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0
invoke-rc.d: initscript squid, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
squid
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I haved already change visible_hostname with localhost and example.squid.com and i haved already find in google but i haven't a satisfied answer

thx for the attention....

I want to refresh squid with the new one that's why i removed it

[jledhead]

is squid running? stop it and then try to remove it

you could also try apt-get -f remove squid

or

dpkg -P squid