Re: aptitude fails to remove a package, error while replacing tetex with texlive

[Jeff Zhang <idealbsd@gmail.com>]

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Søren Christensen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I wanted to replace my tetex-installation with texlive. But something
> went wrong. Now the dvipdfmx is installed, but I need to get rid of it
> before I can install anything else, but aptitude complains, that
> mktexlsr is not installed, and therefore exits the uninstall of
> dvipdfmx.
> 
> I've tried several times, and now the process even kills aptitude.
> 
> Perhaps there is some lock-file preventing a smooth process.
> 
> Is there a way to force a package-removal? (I have tried to purge the
> package)?
> 
> Thanks for any advices.
> 
> /severino
> 
> 
> 
dpkg -P --force-all dvipdfmx
if not work, then
mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/dvipdfmx* /tmp
aptitude purge dvipdfmx
or apt-get remove --purge dvipdfmx
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