Re: how to force 'dpkg --purge' ?

2001-03-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:34:09PM +0100, christophe barbe wrote: > Sorry, I realize that I can look in the script (I don'tb know why but I was > thinking that they were hidden). > Perhaps you know where these scripts are saved ? /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.{post,pre}{inst,rm} -- Ethan Benso

Re: how to force 'dpkg --purge' ?

2001-03-20 Thread christophe barbe
Sorry, I realize that I can look in the script (I don'tb know why but I was thinking that they were hidden). Perhaps you know where these scripts are saved ? Christophe On mar, 20 mar 2001 10:53:56 Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:26:21AM +0100, christophe barbe wrote: > > (under

Re: how to force 'dpkg --purge' ?

2001-03-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:26:21AM +0100, christophe barbe wrote: > (under poatto with ximian gnome 1.4beta) > I try to remove a package (mozilla-xmlterm) but dpkg refuse to do it because > the post script return 1. > So I can't remove it. I imagine that is because I've previously removed > mozil

Re: how to force 'dpkg --purge' ?

2001-03-20 Thread Bernhard Wesely
try dpkg --purge --force-depends but be aware, that it might corrupt your dependencies. good luck, Bernie - Original Message - From: "christophe barbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:26 AM Subject: how to force 'dpkg --purge' ? &

how to force 'dpkg --purge' ?

2001-03-20 Thread christophe barbe
(under poatto with ximian gnome 1.4beta) I try to remove a package (mozilla-xmlterm) but dpkg refuse to do it because the post script return 1. So I can't remove it. I imagine that is because I've previously removed mozilla. Is there a way to force dpkg to remove mozilla-xmlterm from the packages