What to do when install/uninstall both fail?

[Anthony Campbell <a.campbell@doctors.org.uk>]

What can you do when you can neither install nor uninstall a package,
which is left broken?

I've done this with tetex-base. Even using the force option to remove it
sith with dpkg doesn't work.

I think I may have to make an entirely new installation of Debian :-(


Before resorting to this, is there anything else I can try?


Anthony




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