[TriLUG] Apt *@&(*^$#@

[Brian McCullough]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:08:22AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> What about:
> 
> dpkg --force-all --remove frozen-bubble-data


Bingo!



> it's pretty much a "power tool" so beware, but it could do the trick.
> 
> ap



Thank you, Andrew.

Sometime we got so caught up in the problem at hand that we miss the
obvious.  I have used the "force" commands before, but didn't think of
that this time.

It did complain that it couldn't 

mv: cannot stat `/usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav': No such file or
directory


but a simple "touch" fixed that.


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Thanks again,
Brian