Re: I hate gdm!
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:53:42AM -0500, James Smith wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Could somebody tell me a way to force the uninstall of gdm? It refuses to
> uninstall, and my apt system is locked up because it can't get past
> uninstalling gdm. I've tried dselect and dpkg --remove. Here is the output:
>
> Removing gdm ...
> dpkg: error processing gdm (--remove):
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> gdm
>
> I tried gdm and decided I liked kdm much better. But I can't install it (or
> anything else) until I uninstall gdm. Any suggestions?
well you can always remove the prerm script (rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/gdm.prerm)
however not knowing what all it does in that script you may cause gdm to
not properly cleanup after itself. my suggestion would be to grab that
script and take a look to see what's hosed.
Ivan
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