On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: > Once again I spent a lot of time with the debian package system. It seems > to be impossible to remove an essential package although dpkg offers > an option. When I am issuing the command > > dpkg --force-remove-essential perl-base > > only a help message is displayed. This is frustrating since > > dpkg --force-help > > displays the command as valid. I am not able to install a lot of important > packages since I have to replace perl-base v. 5.004 with v. 5.005 and the > 5.004 perl with the newest one. I am stuck again with a debian package > problem. These problems are consuming most of the time for administering > the system (my next system will be slackware).
If anything is depending on perl-base you have to issue a dpkg --force-remove-essential --ignore-depends=perl-base perl-base -- Ashley Clark
