Re: Removing packages

["Scott K. Ellis" <storm@gate.net>]

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On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Vitor Beires Nogueira wrote:

>   dpkg --purge --force-depends  babel latex
> 
> I get these errors:
> 
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/latex.prerm: install-fmt-base: command not found
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/babel.postrm: install-fmt-base: command not found
> 
> Already searched for this utility and doesn't seem to be anywhere.

install-fmt-base was in one of the other old TeX packages, the easiest
solution for this problem is to symlink /usr/bin/install-fmt-base to
/bin/true, run the dpkg --purge command, then delete the symlink.

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