Re: Broken package: dselect can't istall or deinstall a package

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Mario Bertrand wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> For about a 2 weeks I'm unable to install the wmaker package. Dselect tell me
> that the package is to much broken and that I should deinstall and when I try
> to deinstall I have the message to reinstall the package. Any idea?
> 


	It would help if we saw the exact error messages.  Have you tried dpkg
itself possibly with one or more of the '--force-xxx' options?  Try
purging the current package with 'dpkg --purge --force-depends
[pkgname]', and then immediately installing the new version.


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Ed C.