Re: How to remove half-configured package?

["Nick de Graeve" <nick.degraeve@telenet.be>]

David Baron schreef:

> On Tuesday 16 August 2005 14:52, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
> wrote:
> > everytime I try to install
> > anything apt-get complains about the half-configured package left from
> > the screwed up install:
>
> Use dpkg directly. One can force the installation or removal or anything else.
> Apt-get is no more than an oftimes finicky front-end for dpkg's command line
> options.

Can you tell me what command to use exactly?

I feel a bit reluctant to experiment with 'force' commands. For the
moment, although seriously crippled, we can still use the server for
CVS and I don't want to destroy it completely.

Thanks.