Forcibly removing debian packages from ubuntu

If you have a broken package on ubuntu and you want to get rid of it, then you need to remove the bad package - in this file called PACKAGE - from the file  folder  /var/lib/dpkg/info/* . It holds the info files:

for example

nordugrid-arc-ldap-infosys.conffiles
nordugrid-arc-ldap-infosys.list
nordugrid-arc-ldap-infosys.md5sums
nordugrid-arc-ldap-infosys.postinst
nordugrid-arc-ldap-infosys.postrm
nordugrid-arc-ldap-infosys.prerm

These must all be moved out to avoid dpkg from exiting on error.

Run these commands on the Package to excoriate it:

mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/PACKAGE.* /tmp/

dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq PACKAGE