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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Urgent request "remove all packages with dpkg" Post 302580801 by Corona688 on Friday 9th of December 2011 04:26:48 PM
Old 12-09-2011
I'm fairly sure dpkg uninstall \* isn't going to solve your problem, and will only make it harder to fix since all your fixing things tools will be gone...

If you can get it from a repo, you can download it by other means. What was the repo? What was the package called?
 

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repotrack(1)															      repotrack(1)

NAME
repotrack - track a package and its dependencies and download them SYNOPSIS
repotrack [options] package1 [package2...] DESCRIPTION
repotrack is a program for keeping track of a particular package and its dependencies. It will download one or more packages and all depen- dencies. OPTIONS
-h, --help Display a help message, and then quit. -c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG Config file to use (defaults to /etc/yum.conf). -a ARCH, --arch=ARCH Act as if running the specified arch (default: current arch). -r REPOID, --repoid=REPOID Specify repo ids to query, can be specified multiple times (default is all enabled). -t, --tempcache Use a temp dir for storing/accessing yum-cache. -p DESTDIR, --download_path=DESTDIR Path to download packages to. -u, --urls Instead of downloading RPMs, list the URLs that would be downloaded. -n, --newest Toggle downloading only the newest packages (defaults to newest-only). -q, --quiet Output as little information as possible. SEE ALSO
yum.conf (5) http://yum.baseurl.org/ AUTHORS
See the Authors file included with this program. 13 January 2013 repotrack(1)
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