Re: "irradicating" a package?

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com>]

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 23:30, Jan Johansson wrote:
> >dpkg --purge package
> >
> >If this is failing, give us more info.
>
> argus:/etc/exim# dpkg --purge exim
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of exim:
>  at depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
>   Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is to be removed.
>  mailx depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
>   Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is to be removed.
> dpkg: error processing exim (--purge):
>  dependency problems - not removing
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  exim
> argus:/etc/exim#

then we pull out the big guns:

*WARNING*

dpkg --force-depends --purge exim

Use this only when you KNOW for CERTAIN this is safe.  In the case of exim 
your machine will not fall over and die because it is missing a mail server.

*WARNING*

For more info see dpkg --force-help.