Re: package in a bad way - what to do
On 28 Aug 2001 23:47:12 -0500, burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com
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> Arrgh ... on -all- of these I get
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> dpkg: unknown force/refuse option 'reinstreq'
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> wtf? i say, wtf? ... I'm reading the same man pages that are recommending
> the same things that get called 'unknown' when I try to invoke them.
Now it's time for surgery.
Go find the deb file and run dpkg -c aime-whatever-.deb
Just destroy all the files that are listed as being part of the package
and judisciously scrub the c>
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> onfig files from /etc or wherever.
I'd also make a backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status and then edit the status
field for aime to not installed since I have the feeling that the
package tools will bomb on this too.
I'd wait and see if someone else has comments since I haven't done this
before and I THINK (let me say that again - I THINK) this should work.
--mike
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