Re: removing badly-broken package

Hi, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >After a recent upgrade of some potato packages, xcontrib is in a very >broken state where I can neither upgrade nor remove it. > >dpkg reports: > >$ dpkg -l xcontrib >Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge >| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpack

removing badly-broken package

After a recent upgrade of some potato packages, xcontrib is in a very broken state where I can neither upgrade nor remove it. dpkg reports: $ dpkg -l xcontrib Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst