notes
just some notes
1) resolving dpkg-subprocess errors
when neither reinstalling, reconfiguring, and all force variants won't help,
it is possible that something's faulting within the post/pre-install/remove scripts
tweaking the appropriate script may help
2) compiling from an rpm manually
1) resolving dpkg-subprocess errors
dpkg: error processing [packagename](--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
[packagename]
dpkg --remove returned error exit status 1.
when neither reinstalling, reconfiguring, and all force variants won't help,
it is possible that something's faulting within the post/pre-install/remove scripts
tweaking the appropriate script may help
to enforce removal of a package;
causing premature exit
remove with dpkg
# $EDITOR /var/lib/dpkg/info/[packagename].prermcausing premature exit
#!/bin/sh
set -e
exit 0 remove with dpkg
# dpkg --force-all -r [packagename]
2) compiling from an rpm manually
create tgz with alien
unpack tgz
compile
# alien -r [packagename].rpmunpack tgz
# tar xzvf [packagename].tgz ./[packagename]# cd [packagename]compile
# make -f [packagename].mk
