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it is very annoying to have ones overrides overridden; see also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25381304/why-type-cd-on-mac-os-states-that-cd-is-a-function
author Jeff Hammel <k0scist@gmail.com>
date Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:02:17 -0800
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#!/bin/bash
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# really remove Ubuntu packages
# http://www.piprime.fr/1480/manually-remove-broken-package-debian-ubuntu/

for PACKAGE in $@
do
  echo "Removing ${PACKAGE}"
  sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/${PACKAGE}.* /tmp/
  sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq ${PACKAGE}
done