Force Removing Packages in Ubuntu
Posted by hank, Fri Mar 30 18:18:00 UTC 2007
I couldn’t update tor in Ubuntu because it freaked out when I didn’t have a /var/run/tor directory. Even after creating the directory, it still freaked out. I ended up using the method in this post to fix the problem.
Here’s my resultant /var/lib/dpkg/info/tor.prerm:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_installinit
#if [ -x "/etc/init.d/tor" ]; then
# if [ -x "`which invoke-rc.d 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
# invoke-rc.d tor stop || exit $?
# else
# /etc/init.d/tor stop || exit $?
# fi
#fi
# End automatically added section
Just comment it all out and do this:
sudo apt-get remove --force-yes tor
Voila!
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August 18, 2007 @ 07:44 PM
Thanks so much for this - Ive been trying for two weeks to get tor removed - and thanks to this its now gone