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Re: irremovable package?



On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:19:01PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
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> Hi. dpkg has become locked up over one errant package and is not 
> allowing anything else to be processed.
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> # dpkg -P --force-all nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686
> (Reading database ... 118665 files and directories currently 
> installed.)
> Removing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 ...
> cat: alsa: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 (--purge):
>  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686
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> 
> Where can I erase this package from the database so dselect and the 
> rest will again function correctly? The module itself is long gone.

/var/lib/dpkg/status

Keep a backup...

Brian



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