[ale] Debian package insanity

[William Witt]

I'm not a debian user, but is there a --force option in dpkg like in rpm?

Jason Day wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:11:34PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>   
>> On Mon May 15 2006 1:42 pm, Jason Day wrote:
>>     
>>>  cannot remove file `/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm': Not a directory
>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>  xterm
>>> spiderman:/home/jday#
>>>       
>> create a directory  /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm   ??
>>     
>
> Well sure, but there are about 230 files and/or directories in the
> package, and I don't want to have to create them all.  I realize I could
> script it, but I'm hoping there's a better (and saner) way to remove a
> package.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion though.
>
> Jason
>