Force uninstallation of a package in Debian
Posted by Vince Wadhwani on Jan 12, 2008 in | gnu/linux
Sometimes Debian packages don't play nice. They install fine but try to upgrade them or remove them and they'll have a fit. It's happened to me on Lighttpd before and it just happened again with Wifi-radar. This time the error on removing the package said:
The following packages will be REMOVED: wifi-radar 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 238kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 156000 files and directories currently installed.) Removing wifi-radar ... Stopping wifi-radar daemon...invoke-rc.d: initscript wifi-radar, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing wifi-radar (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 255 Starting wifi-radar daemon...Errors were encountered while processing: wifi-radar E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
