on Sat, Apr 13, 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry (shalehperry@attbi.com) wrote: > > On 13-Apr-2002 David Wright wrote: > > > > How do I tell &*$#*@&% dpkg: "I dont' care that your f**king postremoval > > script returned errors, just get absolutely everything that had to do > > with this package off my system and forget it ever existed" ??? > > > > dpkg --force-all --purge XXX doesn't do it. > > > > My usual tactic is to look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.postrm and > see if I can fix it, if not I add an 'exit 0' just before it dies. > Just make sure to do by hand what it fails to do. Similar trick: I'll replace the line with a 'true' command, commenting the rest of it. This doesn't always work (sometimes you're still in hot water), but frequently does. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org
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