Re: purging latex
On Apr 10, digger vermont wrote
> I'm upgrading from 1.2 to bo and at tetex-*'s request am trying to run
> "dpkg --purge --force-depends latex". This is the response I get:
>
> (Reading database ... 31313 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing latex ...
> Removing latex format(s) using install-fmt-base(8)
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/latex.prerm: install-fmt-base: command not found
> dpkg: error processing latex (--purge):
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
> Building new latex format(s) using install-fmt-base(8)
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> latex
Unfortunately AFAIK there is no way to tell dpkg to ignore prerm errors.
Here's what I did (note: in general, one should not modify dpkg's files and
scripts directly):
since I was removing latex and the other old tex packages anyway, it
didn't matter if for a brief period they aren't working right, so I edited
/var/lib/dpkg/info/latex.prerm to do 'exit 0' first thing. Thus, the prerm
doesn't fail, and latex gets removed.
Greetings,
Ray
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