On 23-Jul-2001 Stan Brown wrote: > I'm building a new STABLE machine this weekend. > > By not paying enough attention to the depedncies that dselect picke, I > would up with a broken install of aolserver. I don't need this package at > all, but dpkg --remove aolserver fails. > > How can I remove all traces of this package? >
guessing that you probably get the "this package is not properly install, reinstall it". which seems odd when you are trying to remove it. # dpkg --purge --force-reinstreq aolserver # go away, I mean it! check out dpkg --force-help for other useful options. *Warning* --force-foo is dangerous when used when not need. Unlike rpm, most Debian problems need not be solved by --force. P.S. note the use of --purge, --remove will leave behind conffiles and some other items. purge makes the package disappear.
