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.
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