Saturday, November 20, 2010

Manual package removal in Ubuntu(Linux)

consider you want to remove cheese package at ubuntu.
Check ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/cheese.list exists or not
then check files at /var/lib/dpkg/info/cheese.list then manually remove all of them.
Then backup /var/lib/dpkg/status file
which contain all info about all packages.
then manually edit and remove cheese package at /var/lib/dpkg/status file
Then save it
then run
apt-get -f install

Done that 's it
Note : this step is when automatically removal failed or when package corrupted and unable to remove

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