Originally Posted by ldrn

If that is the case, you *should* be able to remove things with...

Code:

sudo gainroot
mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/freeciv* /tmp/
dpkg --remove --force-depends --force-remove-reinstreq freeciv freeciv-client-sdl freeciv-server freeciv-data

... but if the files are still there, you'd need to manually delete the files after.