-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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. Did you read that message? Note this line: dpkg: need an action option dpkg is complaining that you didn't tell it to do anything! Try this command: dpkg --force-remove-essential --remove perl-base - --force-* are just flags that tell dpkg not to abort when it sees you trying to do something potentially damaging. You still need the action - --remove in order to remove packages. > 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. No slink packages should require > 5.004, and the current perl in potato is 5.005 (potato perl-base just depends on perl5-base, it provides no files). So i'm not clear on why you need to remove it in the first place... - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN+PK+L7M/9WKZLW5AQE8lgP/aO5LQIpssEyytQmsN2IfefqshIZ8lt7V MM/h6+RwbcNvBHyfD/qbzWOSsnYS5p5mIKX29nlrh+OYSaS5oX42tSZjkdvtUMks 2HUj4KLyJ6IKNT5aeMYG0KtUZEcgK6kFjyIzeffcIDXjAOWXz0GqB4Qz2fil67Dq i4SSVgaxPxE= =g0PY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----