Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #71
"Raymond L. Zarling" wrote:
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> As you can see, it is the same as everything else; the pre-removal script
> (or post-installation script, as the case may be) keeps failing.
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> I have also managed to manually download the xserver-xfree86...deb file, and
> got it to unpack using apt-get unpack, thinking perhaps the copy that had
> been automatically downloaded by dselect when I first started all this (and
> which has since, evidently, been cleaned away) might have been corrupt.
> Well, still no joy.
>
> So I followed another user's suggestion and downloaded the binary from
> ftp.xfree86.org and installed it. It installed fine, but I _still_ can't
> clear the error in the package managers! xserver-xfree86 still shows up as
> a "Broken Optional Package in Section X11", and it won't remove!
>
> This is making me crazy. Do dpkg, apt-get, etc. rally not have some kind of
> "override" that will just let you start over? Is my only option to
> reformat the drive and install the whole OS from scratch?
>
> --Ray
>
Hi Ray,
have a look at the files in /var/lib/dpkg. May be there are
inconsistencies.
May be you can solve the problem there but surely you can mess up your
whole system. Therefor be warned!
Greetings
Albrecht
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