How to remove a package in Debian?

Question

linux

I can't do anything, I keep getting this error:

E: Пакет vibrancy-colors нуждается в переустановке, но найти архив для него не удалось.

How can I remove this package?

Answer 1

To solve this problem, you need to delete the information from this package in the file /var/lib/dpkg/status.
Edit the file: sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status
Press CTRL+F.
And enter the name of the problematic package.
Delete the entire package information block.
WARNING: Do not delete anything extra!
Save the file.
Enter:
To be completely safe, you need to delete all the files in the package.
To do this, you need to install and remove this package.
All problem solved.
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Answer 2

try
sudo apt-get -f install