Re: Removing stubborn package
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On 18 May 1997, lars wrote:
> Thank you all for your pointers to TeX/LaTeX references, but can
> someone now tell me how to force the removal of the xypic package?
> dpkg -i tetex-base_etc tells me what to do to remove it, but it
> doesn't work at all. Here is the output:
>
> # dpkg --purge --force-depends xypic
> (Reading database ... 23313 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing xypic ...
> dpkg: error processing xypic (--purge):
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> xypic
> #
>
> Is there a way to tell dpkg to remove all references to xypic from the
> database, regardless of the presence of files, which are gonna be
> replaced by tetex anyway? Thanks again.
The best thing to do in this instance is to look at the file
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xypic.prerm, find what command might be failing, and
disable that command (or remove the "set -e" line). Then remove the
package and it should work.
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