rogered apt database

[Rick Moen]

begin  Tom Lancaster quotation:
> 
> I'm looking for advice here, as I can't seem to find any in the docs.
> I've been following the frozen dist, and somewhere along the way I seem
> to have picked up a corrupted package (php3-doc). I don't even need this
> pkg, so all I want to do is uninstall it, but it's so badly rogered that
> it can't even do that. Is there any way to remove all references to this
> from the database manually?
> Where is the database? What form does it take?

It's a text file:  /var/lib/dpkg/status .
Try making a safety copy, and then manually snipping out the offending
package's entry with a text editor.

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