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Gaccm
02-09-2001, 11:29 PM
currently dselect and apt-get are screwed. My first problem is that i had apt-get removed a prog and it didn't work, so i manually deleted it but apt-get still thinks its there, si whenever i try to use apt-get it tries to remove it and errors. 2, i currently have some progs selected in dselected that i dont want installed, i tried restarting comp and whenever i try installing dselect it wants to install those. Is there any simple fix to this one, one that doesn't require going over each line?

Ig0r
02-09-2001, 11:39 PM
Force dpkg to remove the offending program.
Read the info provided by "dpkg --force-help".

rod
02-09-2001, 11:50 PM
You may also try:

dpkg --purge <packagename>


Regards,
Rod