Force removal of installed packages?

[Derek Broughton]

Ed Smits wrote:

> My son's Dapper has gotten screwed up - he installed something called
> Donkey, it doesn't work correctly, and since then Synaptic et al are
> acting up and he can neither install new updates or programs. When I
> tried to remove donkey using Synaptic it errors out with:
> 
> E: mldonkey-server: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit
> status 1

rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/mldonkey-server.prerm

is the brute-force approach to fixing these problems :-)

It's possible that it will leave you with some config files you don't want,
but it's unlikely to cause any other problems.  The alternative would be to
actually fix the script.
-- 
derek