Re: irremovable package?

From: by way of Curt Howland (Howland_at_Priss.com)
Date: 03/31/04

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    Mr Marcum, you are a gentleman of the first order.

    Success, and Thank You I now know where to look when such things
    happen in the future.

    Curt-

    On Wednesday 31 March 2004 01:02, Bill Marcum was heart to say:
    > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:00:11PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
    > > Hi. Since this is on a laptop I thought I'd ask here since the
    > > users forum has not been responsive...
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    > >
    > > Hi. dpkg has become locked up over one errant package and is not
    > > allowing anything else to be processed.
    > >
    > > - -----------------------------------------
    > > # 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
    > > - -----------------------------------------
    > >
    > > Where can I erase this package from the database so dselect and
    > > the rest will again function correctly? The module itself is long
    > > gone.
    >
    > Edit the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686.postrm
    > and insert "exit 0" as the second line.

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