cannot remove package inted

How to remove inted package?

if I try

$ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove inetd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'inetd' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.

But I have it installed (I can for example see its man page man inetd and even run it):

$ inetd
inetd: non-root must specify a config file

so how to remove this package?

1 Answer

The package name in Ubuntu is openbsd-inetd.

$ apt-file search bin/inetd
openbsd-inetd: /usr/sbin/inetd
rlinetd: /usr/sbin/inetd2rlinetd

inetd is a virtual package which explains why you were able to remove it yet still it did not remove that binary.