Re: Apt Needs Counseling

[Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>]

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"