[ale] the mysteries of dpkg

[briarpatch.jim at earthlink.net (Jim Philips)]

On Friday 20 April 2007 07:47:21 pm 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 fuse,
> hoping to reinstall and get rid of the conflicts. Here is the outcome:

Googling found the answer:

dpkg -P fuse

I had to remove a couple of packages in the dependency chain, because I had 
compiled one package from source and installed it before any of this other 
stuff was installed.
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