Bug#374195: --force-remove-reinstreq
(note: I have no idea what I'm doing!)
Edited /var/lib/dpkg/info/python2.4.prerm to start with:
exit 0
Then:
$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq python2.4
python2.4-gnome2 python2.4-glade2 python2.4-cairo python2.4-pyorbit
python2.4-gtk2 python2.4-dbus hal-device-manager python2.4-libxml2
$ sudo apt-get install -f
After this, I was able to use APT again. Well, it actually says:
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/python-fuse_2.5-3_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/fuse.py', which
is also in package python2.3-fuse
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/python-fuse_2.5-3_i386.deb
but I feel I'm back on familiar territory now! Use at own risk!
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