Screwed up apt database I think FIXED

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 10 December 2012 14:36:38 Gene Heskett did opine:

> Greetings;
> 
> I have a total update/install blocker.  I long ago marked to remove 2
> accidentally installed dict files for libreoffice, for es and fr,
> neither of which do me any good.
> 
> The files themselves are I believe long gone, but they are marked for
> removal in the synaptic display and have been for several months.  And I
> cannot unmark them either.
> 
> Even a dpkg --purge can not complete the operation so life can get back
> to normal.
> 
> So, where can I manually nuke from the apt-get database, any knowledge
> that these two files were ever installed?
> 
> I like apt-get & synaptic, even the update-manager, but when they get a
> tummy ache, there seems to be no real way to force them to fix the
> database & stop the diarrhea.

I went thru the /var/dpkg/info files and nuked every entry that referenced 
those files & that was quite a project, those files are huge, but synaptic 
is now happy except for a missing key from the freecad repo site.

That isn't a ubuntu problem and I can live with that.
 
> Cheers, Gene


Cheers, Gene
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