[ale] the mysteries of dpkg

[yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 19:47 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
> I started out wanting to install a package called ntfs-config on Ubuntu 
> Fessty. It had problems with the fuse package. So, I tried to removed fue, 
> hoping to reinstall and get rid of the conflicts. Here is the outcome:
> 
> rebus at rebus:~$ sudo apt-get remove fuse

Try this:

  ~$ sudo apt-get clean 
  ~$ sudo apt-get update
  ~$ sudo dpkg --purge fuse fuse-utils

At that point, if everything is ok, try 
 
  ~$ sudo apt-get autoremove

to get rid of all the extra "hundreds" of packages.

hth,

-Jim P.