dpkg problems

[geoffrey mendelson]

Hi, I have a few packages that are not really installed, or were  
configured manually that dpkg wants to configure, which messes things  
up.

When ever I run an update, dpkg runs the configure scripts and things  
need to be fixed to get them to work again.

Is there any way to tell dpkg to not run the scripts any more? I don't  
want to delete anything, and I have set up the automatic package  
updates to ignore them. I just want dpkg to not run its scripts.

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 if it matters.

Thanks, Geoff.
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