irremovable package?

From: Curt Howland (Howland_at_Priss.com)
Date: 03/30/04

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:19:01 -0500

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    Hi. dpkg has become locked up over one errant package and is not
    allowing anything else to be processed.

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    # dpkg -P --force-all nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686
    (Reading database ... 118665 files and directories currently
    installed.)
    Removing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 ...
    cat: alsa: No such file or directory
    dpkg: error processing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 (--purge):
     subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686
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    Where can I erase this package from the database so dselect and the
    rest will again function correctly? The module itself is long gone.

    Curt-

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