At 06:13 PM 7/24/97 +1300, Adam Shand wrote:
>And when I try and uninstall shadow-passwd it is of course a required
>package. Is there a nice way to overcome this which won't end up with
>duplicate packages installed?
>
># dpkg -r shadow-passwd
>dpkg: error processing shadow-passwd (--remove):
> This is an essential package - it should not be removed.
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> shadow-passwd
>
>Adam.
You might want to try
dpkg -rf shadow-passwd
The -f switch will force it to ignore errors.
Syd
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