On Friday 04 February 2005 13:00, Josh Metzler wrote: > It looks like your system is messed up. Did you try to purge some > packages but then stop the operation part way through? > > > paulm@scaramanga:~$ dpkg --list libkcal2a > > > pi libkcal2a 3.3.2-1 KDE calendaring library > > paulm@scaramanga:~$ dpkg --status libkcal2a > > Package: libkcal2a > > Status: purge ok installed The bug looked initially to be missing information, so my first step was to try and check the integrity of the package. Does dpkg support this check? I couldn't see how to do it. As a fall-back, I tried to uninstall (purge) and reinstall. However, packages depended on libkcal2a, so the purge stopped. As the number of dependent packages was large and I didn't try to rip everything out, I didn't carry on. So, at that point I gave up trying to verify the integrity of libkcal2a. I tried to tell the system not to purge (or attempt to purge) libkcal2a, but I could not figure out how to reset that. In summary, no files of libkcal2a were purged. > These indicate that dpkg thinks you want this package purged, but > that it is currently installed. Are you sure all of its > dependencies are installed correctly? They were fine. AFAIK, nothing was purged. > I suggest trying: > > apt-get install libkcal2 > > And then trying again. That has no effect: scaramanga:~# apt-get install libkcal2a Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done libkcal2a is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. scaramanga:~# dpkg --configure -a scaramanga:~# dpkg -l libkcal2a [...] pi libkcal2a 3.3.2-1 KDE calendaring library scaramanga:~# (and the bug is still present) Cheers, Paul.
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