Re: removal of essential packages
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote:
> Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems
> to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers
> an option. When I am issuing the command
>
> dpkg --force-remove-essential perl-base
>
> only a help message is displayed. This is frustrating since
>
> dpkg --force-help
>
> displays the command as valid. I am not able to install a lot of important
> packages since I have to replace perl-base v. 5.004 with v. 5.005 and the
> 5.004 perl with the newest one. I am stuck again with a debian package
> problem. These problems are consuming most of the time for administering
> the system (my next system will be slackware).
If anything is depending on perl-base you have to issue a
dpkg --force-remove-essential --ignore-depends=perl-base perl-base
--
Ashley Clark
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