Re: Broken package: dselect can't istall or deinstall a package

[Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@daldata.no>]

> Hi,
> 
> For about a 2 weeks I'm unable to install the wmaker package. Dselect tell me
> that the package is to much broken and that I should deinstall and when I try
> to deinstall I have the message to reinstall the package. Any idea?

Yes.
dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq wmaker

For help on forcing dpkg to do its job, use dpkg --force-help.
"--force-remove-reinstreq" will successfully remove a package
that require reinstallation, but there is a warning that this
may seriously damage your installation.  I have used this
myself and had no problems though.  I guess the "serious damage"
possibilities are mostly theoretical, at least when the 
package concerned isn't important.

Helge Hafting