Re: backuppc a dog to get rid of now blocking updates

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:

> On Wed 23 Nov 2011 at 05:15:40 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>>   dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
>>    syntax error: unknown user 'backuppc' in statoverride file
>> 
>> Can the `stateoverride' file mentioned be edited?  If so, where is it?
>> 
>> Searches of /etc/ and /var/ come up dry.
>
> /var/lib/dpkg
>
> dpkg-statoverride(8)

Thanks 
Ackk I was searching for a misspelled *statoveride* (one too few `r').

And finally I've gotten rid of that junk.

removing a line from /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride:
 `backuppc www-data 4750 /usr/lib/backuppc/cgi-bin/index.cgi'

Finally allowed `aptitude purge backuppc' to do its work.

And now updates has a clear run too.