Re: apt-get failure: "no script in the new version of the package"
OK, I fixed it. I manually downloaded an earlier, more robust version
of esound-common from ftp.debian.org and did a "dpkg -i". After that I
ran "apt-get -f install" and now it's whistling clean:
root@focus:~# dpkg -i esound-common_0.2.35-2_all.deb
dpkg - warning: downgrading esound-common from 0.2.35-2.1 to 0.2.35-2.
(Reading database ... 358586 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace esound-common 0.2.35-2.1 (using
esound-common_0.2.35-2_all.deb) ...
error: empty control file at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 621.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 21
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK.
Unpacking replacement esound-common ...
Setting up esound-common (0.2.35-2) ...
root@focus:~# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
esound-common
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libwine libwine-print libwine-twain wine wine-utils winetools
The following packages will be upgraded:
esound-common
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 1892 not upgraded.
8 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/38.2kB of archives.
After unpacking 11.2MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 358586 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace esound-common 0.2.35-2 (using
.../esound-common_0.2.36-3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement esound-common ...
(Reading database ... 358542 files and directories currently
installed.)
Removing libwine-twain ...
Removing wine-utils ...
Removing winetools ...
Removing libwine-print ...
Removing wine ...
Removing libwine ...
Setting up esound-common (0.2.36-3) ...
Setting up libesd0 (0.2.36-3) ...
Setting up esound (0.2.36-3) ...
Setting up libgnome2-0 (2.10.1-1) ...
Setting up gnome-about (2.10.2-1) ...
Setting up libgnome-desktop-2 (2.10.2-1) ...
Setting up libpanel-applet2-0 (2.10.2-1) ...
Setting up gnome-panel (2.10.2-1) ...
Setting up libesd0-dev (0.2.36-3) ...
root@focus:~#
I'm not under the impression that anyone is listening; this is kind of
for my own notes at this point, but if you are listening, honk if you
love the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe@ludism.org
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