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    UnInstall ngircd ? - SOLVED

    Has anyone figured out yet how to uninstall ngircd?

    I installed this guy, but I want to get rid of it so that I can use dancer-ircd, instead. But, ngircd will not uninstall. Some kind of error occurs during the uninstall process and Adept Manager bails out. I did a search in the ether, and it appears that this is a known issue. I just haven't seen any solutions.

    Is there maybe a way to tell apt-get or Adept Manager to force the uninstall?

    Thanks in advance.
    Dave
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    Re: UnInstall ngircd ?

    Additional Information:

    I've tried both apt-get and dpkg to try to remove this beast, include a --force-yes in apt-get, but I'm a little worried to use the --force-things option in dpkg because I don't think I really understand it.

    Anyway, the output is:
    Code:
    root@dhicks:~# apt-get --force-yes remove ngircd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
 ngircd
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 254kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 91277 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ngircd ...
Stopping Next generation IRC server: invoke-rc.d: initscript ngircd, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing ngircd (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting Next generation IRC server: /usr/sbin/ngircd already running.
invoke-rc.d: initscript ngircd, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ngircd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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      Re: UnInstall ngircd ?

      It seems that the pre-removal script fails improperly. I haven't found any way to, but maybe someone knows how to tell dpkg not to run the pre-removal script?
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        Re: UnInstall ngircd ?

        Okie dokie. Finally found an answer to this one here -> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/251

        I just had to go modify the prerm script for the package and then run "dpkg --remove ngircd" and all is wonderful in the world again.
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