How do i force removal of a package :

[Patrick]

Hi,

How do i force removal of a package

the following package :

root at globlet:/var/cache/apt/archives# aptitude purge libdspam7-drv-mysql
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  dbconfig-common pwgen
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libdspam7-drv-mysql{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1491kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 31046 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libdspam7-drv-mysql ...
dpkg: error processing libdspam7-drv-mysql (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 10
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libdspam7-drv-mysql
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

Patrick

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