Re: Problems with old shadow-passwd

[Syd Alsobrook <alsobrsp@email.uc.edu>]

At 06:13 PM 7/24/97 +1300, Adam Shand wrote:
>And when I try and uninstall shadow-passwd it is of course a required
>package.  Is there a nice way to overcome this which won't end up with
>duplicate packages installed?
>
># dpkg -r shadow-passwd
>dpkg: error processing shadow-passwd (--remove):
> This is an essential package - it should not be removed.
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> shadow-passwd
>
>Adam.


You might want to try 
	dpkg -rf shadow-passwd
The -f switch will force it to ignore errors.




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