Can't uninstall broken packages on hoary system

[Derek Broughton]

David A' Rebel wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:11, ian wrote:
>> I'm having a really great apt problem on hoary.
>> I have a bunch of webmin modules installed from universe, but webmin
>> itself isn't installed, so those packages are considered broken because
>> of the missing dependency.  However, I can't remove them or forceably
>> remove them using synaptic or any other method I've tried from man
>> apt-get because they have unsatisfied dependencies!   I'm just trying to
>> get rid of them all together because having them broken stops me from
>> using apt to install other packages.
>>
>  Have you tried removing them with sudo apt-get remove from a cli ?
> You could try something like sudo dpkg -l |grep webmin to see what comes
> up and then try removing them with apr-get or with dpkg -r .

dpkg --force-all -r 

will remove practically anything.
-- 
derek