On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 07:42:01PM +0000, wbh wrote:
Hi. I've got a broken Debian package: dpkg --purge giram-mesa (Reading database ... 80208 files and directories currently installed.) Removing giram-mesa ... /usr/share/doc/giram-mesa/Tutorial: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing giram-mesa (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: giram-mesa So, what's the "nuke the *&@$" option for dpkg???
Your best bet is to edit /var/lib/spkg/info/giram-mesa.prerm and take out a -e in the first line (or remove a "set -e" in the script somewhere), which will stop it stopping on errors, meaning that it will merrily plough on even if the world ends :-)
Alternatively, touching /usr/share/doc/giram-mesa/Tutorial might be safer?
Aquarius