Re: broken package dependencies, surgery on package database

[Richard Weil <rcweil@yahoo.com>]

I tried both suggestions and got errors ...

> >
> ok, my hunch. Approach #1:
> # dpkg --purge --force-depends i2c-2.4.23
> lm-sensors-2.4.23 "<and the 
> others here>"
> 

I got:

dpkg --purge --force-depends i2c-2.4.23
lm-sensors-2.4.23
dpkg: error processing i2c-2.4.23 (--purge):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you
should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
dpkg: error processing lm-sensors-2.4.23 (--purge):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you
should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 i2c-2.4.23
 lm-sensors-2.4.23


> Approach #2:
> # apt-get --purge remove i2c-2.4.23
> lm-sensors-2.4.23 "<and the others 
> here>"
> 
And for this one:

apt-get --purge remove i2c-2.4.23 lm-sensors-2.4.23
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: The package lm-sensors-2.4.23 needs to be
reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

Any other possibilities? Thanks,

Richard

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