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Re: how to force 'dpkg --purge' ?



On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:26:21AM +0100, christophe barbe wrote:
> (under poatto with ximian gnome 1.4beta)
> I try to remove a package (mozilla-xmlterm) but dpkg refuse to do it because the post script return 1.
> So I can't remove it. I imagine that is because I've previously removed mozilla.
> Is there a way to force dpkg to remove mozilla-xmlterm from the packages database ?

its better to try and figure out why the postinst is failing and fix
it, or do those steps manually and add an exit 0 to the beginning of
the script.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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