[Lilug] Fun with debian packages

[Anthony Ehrhardt]

Are you using synaptic? Try this in a console:
sudo synaptic &

then update the packages, then find the package you installed..if the
package is really there, it'll be check. Simple uncheck it

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Kenneth Downs <ken at secdat.com> wrote:

> I'm experimenting with a debian package on a virtual machine, and have
> managed to get to the state where nothing can be installed until this
> package is removed, but the package cannot be removed because it cannot find
> an archive for it.
>
> I'd like to learn something here, which is how to tell ubuntu to get rid of
> the package even if it cannot find an archive?
>
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> Kenneth Downs
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