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I couldn't get any of the purge or force commands to clear that
broken package. So i ended up with doing it the hard way, with dpkg
- --listfiles packagename
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/01/msg04497.html
Thank you for your input...
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Rogério Brito wrote:
I think that a simpler touch /usr/bin/update-menus.real as root would
work better than using --force-* for dpkg. This way, you can still use
higher level tools than dpkg.
As you may have seen i've solved the problem. But it
Hi, Luís, Lars Co.
On Feb 22 2006, Luis Finotti wrote:
Lars Staun Knudsen wrote:
I cleaned out my system with debfoster, but unfortunately the
package menu is stuck.
(...)
Removing menu ...
chmod: cannot access `/usr/bin/update-menus.real': No such file
or directory
(...)
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Hi
I cleaned out my system with debfoster, but unfortunately the
package menu is stuck. I earlier remembered a way to force at
package out with dpkg. But man or google can't make me remember..
# aptitude purge menu
Reading Package
Hi,
Lars Staun Knudsen wrote:
Hi
I cleaned out my system with debfoster, but unfortunately the
package menu is stuck. I earlier remembered a way to force at
package out with dpkg. But man or google can't make me remember..
# aptitude purge menu
Reading Package Lists... Done
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Luis Finotti wrote:
I am not at my Debian machine, so I can't double check, but I think you
need dpkg --force-purge. (Careful with that! Check the man page.
Search force-thing.)
HTH,
Luis
# dpkg --force-purge menu
dpkg: unknown
Hi,
Lars Staun Knudsen wrote:
Luis Finotti wrote:
I am not at my Debian machine, so I can't double check, but I think you
need dpkg --force-purge. (Careful with that! Check the man page.
Search force-thing.)
# dpkg --force-purge menu
dpkg: unknown force/refuse option `purge'
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