Can't uninstall broken packages on hoary system

[David A' Rebel]

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 .



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