Re: [tlug] Well now I'm hosed - Dapper/Edgy died

[Sigurd Urdahl <sigurdur@example.com>]

Dave M G wrote:
> TLUG,
>
> After much file by file removal, I've seemingly got the errors down to 
> two packages that are blocking me from upgrading to Edgy.
Good:-)

[..]
> Is there any way I can manually blow these help files out of the 
> dpkg/apt-get system, or resolve their dependancies, or anything so 
> that I can successfully complete the sudo apt-get -f install process?

big hammer:

dpkg --purge --force-all

(you could probably get away with a "smaller" force than "all". I thing 
"--force-depends" should work.

kind regards,
-sig