Hello, I have a broken debian package from a third party vendor which I want to uninstall from a debian sarge system.
Unfortunately, the package demands to run a buggy script prior to uninstalling, which always fails, thus blocking the uninstallation procedure. I want to remove this package completely from the package manager's database without caring whether its prerm script fails, no matter the consequenses. I could remove each file from the package by hand, but that still leaves me with a corrupted dpkg database, blocking me from using the package manager. Using "dpkg -r --force-all" doesn't seem to do the trick. Is there another way to force an uninstallation of a broken package? Is there a solution I am missing? Could you point me in the right direction as to what to do? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. Regards -- Stoilis Giannis
