Showing posts with label Linux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linux. Show all posts

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