On 24 Aug 2001 01:44:00 -0600, John Galt wrote: > On 24 Aug 2001, Adam Warner wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I used > > > >echo "<package name> hold" | dpkg --set-selections > > echo "<package name> purge" | dpkg --set-selections
Thanks for trying to help John. There I was trying to search out the db internals documentation to try and hack the package db (which would have been a very unwise move) when I thought I've give the man dpkg page another go. I finally came across this neat command: dpkg --forget-old-unavail Forget about uninstalled unavailable packages. And it does the trick! My newly created non-existent package disappeared from the database. I suspect this may not have worked if you didn't instruct me to change the non-existent package status to "purge" first. Many thanks, Adam
