Re: HELP! Seriously messed up bo -> hamm
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote:
> Please help -- I really messed up my 1.3 system today trying to upgrade to
> 2.0 using the 2-cd set from LSL. I'd like to be able to find a way out of
> this mess and be able to upgrade properly rather than having to save my
> /usr/local and /etc and then reinstall new...
>
... <snip> ...
> Running dselect doesn't help, either. dpkg is broken -- every time I run it
> I get something like:
>
> (Reading database ... 23523 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing wget ...
> install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
> dpkg: error processing wget (--remove):
> subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background)
> Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> wget
I'd first resolve the dependency problems by removing the packages
with dpkg
dpkg --remove wget
If the prerm or postrm scripts fail, edit them to remove the problems.
They're located in /var/lib/dpkg/info.
Once the dependencies are resolved, add only a few packages at a time
starting with the essential ones.
--
Jean Pierre
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