Hi. Detlef Vollmann (HE12026-10-22): > on an old system in a VM I did a 'apt autoremove' and removal > for a package failed. > So I tried 'dpkg -r --force-all hddtemp' and it failed with: > > old hddtemp package prerm maintainer script subprocess failed with exit > status 1 > > So I did a 'dpkg -P --force-all hddtemp' which according to the > man page shouldn't run the 'prerm' script, but it still failed > with the same message. > > Is there a package management tool that allows me to remove the > package anyways? > > I could create some dummy script that makes sure the prerm script > doesn't fail, but I'm curious if there's an "official" way to do it.
Start by looking at the prerm script and find out WHY it fails. Regards, -- Nicolas George
