rogered apt database

[Tom Lancaster]

Thanks. That did the trick. I was all worried it would be a binary file
or something.

Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> 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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