Adpkg (was Re: How to trick debian into thinking a package is installed)

[Ed Donovan <ed@darkleaf.capecod.net>]

>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <clameter@power.net> writes:

    Christoph> Those tools are in the adpkg package... But that package
    Christoph> also has an experimental version of dpkg in it. I will
    Christoph> put it back somehow. If you have access to an earlier
    Christoph> version of adpkg then get that.

Hi - 

While the topic is raised--I installed adpkg a while ago, mistakenly
thinking it could come out cleanly if I wanted to remove it.  I haven't
used deb2asc or asc2deb yet, and don't think I'm using anything else
provided by adpkg.  I'd like to remove it for now, but as an 'Essential'
package dpkg/dselect doesn't want to let it go.  I could
force-remove-essential it, but with it being tied so closely to dpkg, I
haven't wanted to risk that going wrong (not fully confident in my
prediction of dpkg's actions).  Or I could purge it out manually.  I
like to leave my dpkg and debian installation as clean and
uninterfered-with as possible, so I'm curious to hear what the group
knows before trying anything more.

Thanks all,

Ed Donovan					ed@capecod.net


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