>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rick> If I remember correctly, I just went into
Rick> /var/lib/dpkg/status and set the status line for them to
Rick> "purge". I think I did the same with the old "base" package,
Rick> so it looks like this:
Rick> Package: base
Rick> Essential: yes
Rick> Status: purge ok not-installed
Rick> I didn't notice any problems, and it cleaned up the dselect
Rick> sections. I didn't manually delete any files that had
Rick> anything to do with "base".
I did the same thing to get rid of an old kernel-source package that
wouldn't go away. It kept telling me Danger, Package in a Severe
Unstable State, and that I needed to reinstall it to be able to get
rid of it, but since dpkg considers each new kernel-source package a
completely new and different package, and the kernel-source-2.0.0
package was no longer on ftp.debian.org, I had to do the above manual
editing process to get rid of the messages.
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Nathan L. Cutler
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http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~nlc
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