Laurent Martelli wrote: > I've had similar problem with another package. I finally edited the > prerm scripts so that it did not call update-alternatives and I could > remove the package. Yes, I know, it is a little blunt :-) I was thinking about this but I don't know exactly what "an inconsistent state" means on the dpkg point of view. I hope it won't keep some files after purge. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant