jonah@jonah-desktop:~$ dpkg --purge --force-all selinux-policy-default dpkg: operation requires read/write access to dpkg status area jonah@jonah-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-all selinux-policy-default (Reading database ... 125314 files and directories currently installed.) Removing selinux-policy-default ... Purging configuration files for selinux-policy-default ... dpkg - warning: while removing selinux-policy-default, directory `/usr/share/selinux/policy' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing selinux-policy-default, directory `/usr/share/selinux' not empty so not removed. jonah@jonah-desktop:~$