On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:07:20PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> Something went terribly wrong while trying to install a debain package 
> called gtkwifi. Now I'm unable to reinstall the package or force its 
> removal. And using apt-get -f install has not worked either. When trying 
> to reinstall via dpk it keeps complaining: "The package gtkwifi needs to 
> be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.  The deb is in my 
> home directory. Using the --force-all option (for reinstall and removal) 
> didn't help either.

What's the full command line and exact message you get?

With dpkg, you have to specify the location of the package, something like

        dpkg -i /home/nick/gtkwiki.deb
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