Re: need to kill a package...

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Eugene Tyurin <eugene_tyurin@yahoo.com> wrote:
>There's this package smpeg-xmms that is apparently no longer available,
>but it's sitting in my dpkg database and screwing things up with its
>dependencies.
>
>I tried deleting the entry from /var/lib/dpkg/status, but it didn't do
>me any good.  I'm perplexed...

Don't touch /var/lib/dpkg/status manually unless you know what you're
doing. It's the only record of the state of a lot of your system.

Try 'dpkg --purge smpeg-xmms' instead if you don't want it. Note,
though, that that package *is* still in both testing and unstable.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]