How to remove a badly broken package

[yueyu lin]

Thanks a lot!
I modify those scripts and it's finally removed! The dpkg still doesn't work
even I add --force-all. Actually I deleted all files manually and I just
wanted dpkg to remove the meta data in its database. What you said is
exactly what I needed! Thanks again!

On Nov 8, 2007 7:18 PM, Paul S <paulatgm at gmail.com> wrote:

> yueyu lin said the following on 11/08/2007 08:59 PM:
> > Hi, I have a badly broken package, suppose its name is "bad-package". It
> > even fails to install because the wrong path and access rights for
> > post-install script.
> > But the apt-get system show it's already in the repository.
> > The problem is that I can't even remove it.
> > I tried multiple methods
> > apt-get remove --ignore-missing bad-package
> > apt-get remove --ignore-hold bad-package
> > ...
> > I even try apt-get -f install bad-package to try to fix the
> > installation, but they don't work.
> > So everytime, the apt-get system will try to configure the package that
> > will never be configured(without a lot of the post-install scripts...).
> > Now I even deleted all installed file manually but it still appears in
> > the apt-get system and configure and configure every time to install or
> > remove any other packages.
> >
> > Can someone tell me how to remove the records in the apt-get system?
> > thanks in advance
>
> did you try "dpkg -P --force-help bad-package"
>
> also, check the files in /var/lib/dpkg/info/bad-package.*  These are the
> scripts you claim are broken.  You can edit and fix them in place and
> maybe get dpkg to successfully remove.  It may also be possible to just
> delete them to get them out of the system.  Be careful though .. if you
> delete needed files you can break everything.  Maybe make a backup first
> (i.e. tar cjvf dpkg-backup.tar.bz2 /var/lib/dpkg/info).
>
> HTH
>
>
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