From: Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Apt Needs Counseling
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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.
Sorry, I just noticed that I was mistaken about the problem here.
It looks like the removal scripts are complaining about a missing file,
/etc/webmin/webmin.acl. Try:
touch /etc/webmin/webmin.acl
Then try to purge it again.
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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