Trying to fix a package install/update

[Derek Broughton]

marc wrote:

> marc wrote:
> 
>>
>> The autokey package failed to update for me yesterday.
>>
>> Here's the result of aptitude upgrade: http://pastebin.com/m51cde9
>>
>> The error: ImportError: No module named configobj
>> looked like a typical Python issue, so I tried installing
>> python-configobj, but that fails: http://pastebin.com/m6f6e7971
>>
>> Any ideas how to clear this up? I'm happy to purge autokey. Thanks.
> 
> Just to say that I had to do a hard uninstall to fix this issue:
> 
> 1. dpkg --listfiles <package name>
>    Delete all listed files
> 
> 2. Remove package from /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> 3. Remove package from /var/lib/dpkg/available
> 
I _think_ you should have been able to purge it simply by deleting 
/var/lib/dpkg/info/autokey.*

At least, I can't imagine a way to block a purge like this that doesn't 
involve getting errors from the .prerm or .postrm script.
-- 
derek