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When I use the command dpkg --purge olvwm I get the message:

dpkg: error processing olvwm (--purge):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Make olvwm the default window manager [Y]

Any suggestion?
Thanks,
            Al Savio.


robert havoc pennington wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, A. Savio wrote:
> > I am a newbie and I having problems installing the olvwm. Dselect
tells
> > me that it is installed but the shell do not find it. Twm runs OK.
Can
> > anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?
> > Thanks,
> >             Al.
> >
>
> It's likely no one really knows what's wrong, because this should be
an
> "impossible" thing. Either dpkg has a bug (entirely possible), or you
did
> something wrong. If the latter, only you know what it might have been.

>
> Anyway, I would just dpkg --purge olvwm and then install it again, and
it
> ought to be OK. If not, beats me. Note that --purge will erase your
olvwm
> config files.
>
> You could post the output of the following commands:
> dpkg --status olvwm
> echo $PATH
> locate olvwm
>
> That might be useful.
>
> Havoc Pennington
> http://pobox.com/~hp





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