Re: Cannot remove a pcakge

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:29:36 +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to install xgl as described at
> http://sonique54.free.fr/xgl/xgl.htmand now I want to remove the xgl
> package but I am not able. If request
> apt-get --force-yes remove xgl then I get this error:
> 
> ERROR: SuSEconfig or requested SuSEconfig module not present!
> 
> dpkg: error processing xgl (--remove):
> subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> xgl
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> What could I do about it?

Check

/var/lib/dpkg/info/xgl.postrm

and comment out all references to suse-specific tools.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian