Thread: What packages are safe to remove (purge)?
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2013-04-14 , 04:49
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Originally Posted by Alecsandru View Post
var/lib/dpkg/info search the app name (followed by .md5sum .postinst ,etc) , open terminal at that address and ''rm'' those files , in this way I fix the broken packages
No, you haven't. You have deleted *whole and all* post/pre/ install/remove script for those packages, not only offending lines, related to broken "features". It mean, that many important things may not get executed, when they should. You have broken it even more.

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