How do i force removal of a package :

[Derek Broughton]

Antony Gelberg wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Antony Gelberg wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>That's not surprising as the error is coming from dpkg itself, not apt.
>>>  I don't know why you are trying to force things when the system is
>>>telling you there is a problem.  You should be trying to fix the problem.
>> 
>> 
>> Because errors in removal scripts are almost always innocuous,
> 
> Really?  How do you arrive at that assumption?

It's not an assumption, it's an empirical observation.  Under what
circumstance have you ever seen this _not_ be innocuous?

>> but equally
>> almost always the fault of the packager.  Yes, it would be nice if
>> Patrick filed a bug report against the package, but to actually get rid
>> of his package he only has two options - FIX the script (or wait for the
>> packager to fix it) or force it.
> 
> I'm telling him to fix it.  

Yes, but you're not telling him _how_.  

> So he actually has one option.

No, so he can't actually use --force- but he can still force it by deleting
the scripts.  My personal choice...
-- 
derek