Re: aptitude not working after using alien -SOLVED
On 10 Nov 2002, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I no doubt mistakenly tried to install a package using alien. It didn't
> install properly but it still shows up as an available package in
> aptitude (though in a rather broken form). If I try to do anything with
> it, aptitude crashes.
>
> Is there some way to delete all mention of this package from aptitude?
> I've tried using forget-unavailable, I've tried clearing the cache,
> tried using dpkg --forget-unavailable, I've purged aptitude and
> reinstalled it twice, but still I get this alien package showing up. Can
> I delete it manually somewhere?
>
> AC
>
I managed to track the file that contained the relevant entry using
apt-cache dump; it was in /var/lib/dpkg/status.
AC
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