Re: Apt Needs Counseling

[wieseltux23 <gspurki@gmail.com>]

Marty wrote:

> Freddie Witherden wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>
> That just means that you somehow deleted or corrupted the
> post-installation script
> and unless that runs dpkg doesn't "know" if the package is really purged.
>
>>
>> Does anyone know a way of forcing apt/dpkg to forget that a package
>> even exists?
>
>
> If you don't care about whether it's really purged, you can just replace
> the post-installation script with a do-nothing executable script, i.e.
> one
> that just the runs runs "true" or the equivalent.  Otherwise you could
> replace
> the script and rerun the purge command.  Since I don't run webmin I
> don't have
> it handy, but you can just extract it from the .deb using  dpkg -x
> <filename, directory>
>
>
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