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Hi
I cleaned out my system with debfoster, but unfortunately the
package "menu" is stuck. I earlier remembered a way to force at
package out with dpkg. But man or google can't make me remember..

        # aptitude purge menu
        Reading Package Lists... Done
        Building Dependency Tree
        Reading extended state information
        Initializing package states... Done
        Reading task descriptions... Done
        The following packages will be REMOVED:
          menu
        0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0               
not
upgraded.
        Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1679kB will be              
freed.
        Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
        Writing extended state information... Done
        (Reading database ... 25111 files and directories currently     
installed.)
        Removing menu ...
        chmod: cannot access `/usr/bin/update-menus.real': No such              
file
or directory
        dpkg: error processing menu (--purge):
         subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
        chmod: cannot access `/usr/bin/update-menus.real': No such              
file
or directory
        dpkg: error while cleaning up:
         subprocess post-installation script returned error exit                
status 1
        Errors were encountered while processing:
         menu
        E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
        Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.                 
Trying
to recover:
        Reading Package Lists... Done
        Building Dependency Tree
        Reading extended state information

So can anyone remember that "magic" dpkg command that clears any
defiant package. :-)

- --
/Lars
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