Installation database corruption

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:48:11AM +0100, Leo Noordhuizen wrote:
> This is a ctach-22 situation, as I seem to be completely unable to do
> something regarding the installed packages.
> So removing libtiff doesnt work since it seems to be a mess.
> (Executing the suggested 'force-overwrite' command resulted in new error
> messages indicating more issues.

Please post the exact commands you're running and the exact error
messages you see.  They will mean something to me even if they don't
mean anything to you.

> Is there a way to remove a number of packages by force and then cleaning up
> the database ?

Don't - you need to know what you're doing.  I'll be able to give you
better advice given the error messages you're seeing.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]