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script to really forecably remove debian packages
author Jeff Hammel <k0scist@gmail.com>
date Sat, 10 May 2014 10:38:56 -0700
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1 #!/bin/bash
2 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
3
4 # really remove Ubuntu packages
5 # http://www.piprime.fr/1480/manually-remove-broken-package-debian-ubuntu/
6
7 for PACKAGE in $@
8 do
9 echo "Removing ${PACKAGE}"
10 sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/${PACKAGE}.* /tmp/
11 sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq ${PACKAGE}
12 done