Forcibly removing zramswap-enabler from my computer

Question

zramswap-enabler has put my package manage in an "inconsistent state."

I tried forcibly removing it with this commend:

dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq

But it seems to freeze and doesn't complete operation.

I tried modifying my dpkg status file as recommended here, but that didn't work either. When I tried upgrading my other files, zramswap still showed up, and stopped it from completing.

Are there any other ways I can force remove this file, or will I have to reinstall Ubuntu?

Answer 1

I figured it out.

I killed dpkg from the background.

sudo killall -9 dpkg

Removed zram swap references from the dpkg status file.

sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.bkup
sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status

Removed the zram sources from the package manager.

I used the gui.

Than ran this.

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade