Re: How can I recover from a broken package?

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

stan wrote:
> I'm getting pretty desperate here. Yesterday on a new laptop, I tried to
> install the laptop-net package. It appears that tis package has a broken
> script of some kind. As a result I am unable to do _anything_ that involves
> package managment.
>
> At this point in  time, all I wnat to do is remove all traces of this
> package. I've tried lot's of things including:
>
> apt-get --purge remove  --force-yes laptop-net
>
> without success. 
>
> Please help. What can I do to jsut remove all traces of this package?

Try:
  dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq -r laptop-net
  dpkg --force-depends -r laptop-net