removing a package when other installed packages are broken

[Michael V. De Palatis]

Hi,

I decided to mess around with Edgy on my desktop, but it's turned out
to be a complete nightmare. Countless things are broken, and now to
finish the upgrade, it's complaining about not being able to remove
/usr/bin/X11R6 because something is in there. It turns out that what
is in there is a symlink to opera, which I have installed but never
use. Even if I remove the symlink, it refuses to change the directory
to a symlink because opera requires it.

My question is this: How can I remove opera? There are broken packages
that still need to be fixed, but if I do aptitude remove opera (or
similarly with apt-get) it tries to install/fix the broken packages
FIRST before removing. This means that nothing can get done. Is there
a way to force apt to do removing first or just removing so that I can
move on with my life?

Thanks,

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Michael V. De Palatis
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Physics
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mvd 'at' gatech [dot] edu
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