problems with dpkg/deselct installing woody

[Richard Palfalvi <richard.palfalvi@gmx.net>]

Hi !

I have the following problem.

I once installed potato on an old pentium-machine and then didn't use it
for a year or so.

Now I d like to use it again and tried to update to WOODY (before there
was nothing really important on the machine), so I just pointed apt in
sources.list to the testing-url. Then I started the update with dselect.
Download of all files/packages worked fine! :-) BUT:

During the installation-process with dselect it run into the following
error:

Removing gnome-games /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-games.postrm:
scrollkeeper-update: command not found
dpkg: error processing gnome-games (--remove): subprocess post-removal
script returned error exit status 127
errors were encountered while processing: gnome-games
dpkg --remove returned error exit status 1.
press enter to continue.

So,the thing is that I cannot continue/finish the installation process
because any retry runs in the same error-message.

I had a look in the man page of dpkg and tried some manual error fixing
like:

dpkg --force-reinstreq gnome-games 
or
dpkg -purge gnome-games

but I always got the same error messages

the dpkg --status gnome-games command shows the output you can see in
the inclosed attachment-textfile.

Is it a good idea to just erase all files in the /var/cache directories
and restart the whole installation process from scratch or is there some
nicer way to fix the problem? 

any help and hints really appreciated, because it is impossible for me
at the moment to finish the installation due to the cercle vicieux.

thx in advance, Richard

PS: please use my email-adress in the CC-line as I am not subscribed to
the mailing list at the moment.

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Mag. Richard Palfalvi
Wien - Vienne - Vienna
Österreich - Autriche - Austria




Package: gnome-games
Status: purge ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: games
Installed-Size: 2652
Maintainer: Ximian, Inc. <debian@ximian.com>
Version: 1.4.0.1-ximian.8
Depends: gnome-core (>= 1.2.0-0), gnome-card-games (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8), gnome-gnomine (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8), gnome-stones (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8), gnome-gturing (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8), gnome-mahjongg (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8), gnome-same-gnome (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8), gnome-gnibbles (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8), gnome-gnometris (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8), gnome-gnotravex (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8), gnome-gtali (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8), gnome-gnobots2 (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8), gnome-iagno (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8), gnome-glines (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8), gnome-gataxx (= 1.4.0.1-ximian.8)
Description: Empty package that requires the installation of all gnome-games packages.
 Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment"
 .
 It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based
 entirely on free software.