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<DIV>On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:31:44 -0500 Kenneth Downs <<A
href="mailto:ken@secdat.com">ken@secdat.com</A>> writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>Chris Knadle wrote: </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:200902132335.23095.Chris.Knadle@coredump.us type="cite"><PRE wrap="">On Friday 13 February 2009, Kenneth Downs wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">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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sudo dpkg -P <package name>
I've loaded plenty of packages that have no online archives for
them -- it's not required for a package to have an archive in order
to install or remove it.
-- Chris
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>I'll try. I guess I should have said I'm trying
*build* a package, and have built one that is broken, and has left the machine
unable install anything until its fixed.<BR><BR>...and like I said, it's a
virtual, so I can just rollback to the post-install snapshot, but I thought it
would be a good idea to stop and this point and learn how to repair
this.<BR><BR><PRE class=moz-signature cols="72">--
Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
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