removing a package when other installed packages are broken

[Michael V. De Palatis]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 12:19:52PM -0400, Michael V. De Palatis wrote:
> 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?

It seems I too hastily sent this out. I realized right after sending
that I should check if dpkg will do it. Sure enough, dpkg -r does the
trick.

Thanks anyway, and sorry for taking up bandwidth!

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Michael V. De Palatis
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