On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Tom Brown wrote: > On Monday 13 November 2006 09:40, Tom Brown wrote: > > I installed some mysql 5 packages on my development server. I had to do a > > --force-all to get them to install. I've tried three different ways to > > remove the package but all fail (shown below). Any ideas on how to remove > > the package? > > Hmmm... I went on #debian with this problem without any promise of fixing the > problem. I did --force-all when installing the .debs for mysql 5.0.26. I > learned that this was a bad idea. I get the impression that the package db is > fubar. Everything I try fails. This is a develpment server so no real damage > done. I am looking at reinstalling debian and starting over. So, does anybody > have any suggestions before I reinstall? > > Thanks, Hi Tom, one of the errors in the initscripts was complaining about /lib/lsb/init-script. This is in the 'lsb-base' packages. I'd install it so that when you try to re-install mysql 5, it does not fails, at least with that error. So: install 'lsb-base', then 'mysql', then if that works, try to remove 'mysql'. Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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