Re: Apt Needs Counseling

["Freddie Witherden" <freddiewitherden@hotmail.com>]

Here is the result of using that command:
freddie@macserv:~$ sudo dpkg --force-all -P webmin-core
(Reading database ... 75153 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing webmin-core ...
/etc/webmin/webmin.acl: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing webmin-core (--purge):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
/etc/webmin/webmin.acl: No such file or directory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
webmin-core

Does anyone know a way of forcing apt/dpkg to forget that a package even 
exists?

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> Freddie Witherden wrote:
> > Hi, none of those worked. It seems to be because it can not remove 
> > (--purge) a package which does not have ant files and when I try to 
> > reinstall it apt tries to configure the packages which need it. I need a 
> > way of totally nuking those packages from apt's list so that it forgets 
> > that they even exist.
>
> This should always work:
>
> dpkg --force-all -P <pkg-name>
>
> Use caution, backup eveything and read the docs first.  Try "man dpkg" and
> "dpkg --force-help"
>
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