Re: How do I remove gpm?
On Apr 26, Bob Nielsen wrote
> I just installed Debian-1.2 on a machine with no mouse. gpm was
> installed as part of the base system. I configured it to /dev/null,
> since there is no mouse, but figured it would be petter to remove it
> altogether. I am trying to remove it with gpm --purge, but get the
> message:
>
> dpkg error processing gpm (--purge)
> subprocess preremoval script returned error exit status 137
> Starting gpm -m /dev/null -t bare
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> gpm
This is an old release of gpm which is broken :(
edit /etc/init.d/gpm and remove the entry "killall gpm". After that you can
killall -9 gpm to kill it and then dpkg --purge gpm to remove it
completely
> Killing gpm before running dpkg didn't help.
The problem is that /etc/init.d/gpm is called gpm, too. So a
killall gpm would kill this script instead of the real daemon.
Sorry, my fault. :-(
Joey
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