I only caught the end of this thread, but did you try the dpkg --remove
method. It has always worked for me with some additional
manual removal of some of the residual directories left behind because
user-created files were still around.
My $.02 (hopefully not borrowed previously from someone el
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 02:12 pm, Stephen J. Thompson wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have a package that does not want to be removed. All I keep getting is
> the following:
>
> ferengi:~/temp# apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: The package fireb
On 13-Dec-2001 nate wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>>
>> I have tried installing the package but it is Fd. Can anyone
>> help me on removing it?
>
> if apt-get can't remove it and dpkg can't..id say fuckit and
> edit the /var/lib/dpkg/status file and remove it from there,
> then the system shoul
> Hello All,
>
>
> I have tried installing the package but it is Fd. Can anyone
> help me on removing it?
if apt-get can't remove it and dpkg can't..id say fuckit and
edit the /var/lib/dpkg/status file and remove it from there,
then the system should no longer think its installed. ive
edited
On 12-Dec-2001 Stephen J. Thompson wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have a package that does not want to be removed. All I keep getting is the
> following:
>
> ferengi:~/temp# apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: The package firebird-classic needs to
I would suggest doing a dpkg --list |more and see if
the package is listed. If not then you might have
come configuration files still on your system that
were not removed from your last removal. To remove
these I would do a apt-get -purge . Then I
would do the apt-get -remove Then you can
reinst
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