Re: removal of essential packages
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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.
Did you read that message? Note this line:
dpkg: need an action option
dpkg is complaining that you didn't tell it to do anything! Try this
command:
dpkg --force-remove-essential --remove perl-base
- --force-* are just flags that tell dpkg not to abort when it sees you
trying to do something potentially damaging. You still need the action
- --remove in order to remove packages.
> 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.
No slink packages should require > 5.004, and the current perl in potato
is 5.005 (potato perl-base just depends on perl5-base, it provides no
files). So i'm not clear on why you need to remove it in the first
place...
- --
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