DPKG – How to Force Remove When Post-Installation Script Fails

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I have a custom package installed on my Ubuntu 10.10, and trying to remove it, I got:

$ sudo dpkg -r package
sub-process script post-installation installed returne an error state 127

(the message returned from the command was translated from portuguese(br).

So, I noted that on the installation script of this package, what it did was create an entry on my startup, create a folder on /opt and create a user.

I removed all it created. But now, I just want to remove it from dpkg list, because I want to make my linux like if I never installed this package.

How can I do this?

Best Answer

You may need to manually remove the package using:

sudo dpkg --purge --force-all package

Replace package with the name of the package.

Do note: its recommended to report a bug if the package is not yours or is unknown to you what the script does.

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