Broken libtiff3g-dev
I have, in the process of upgrading my potato system, broken the
libtiff3g-dev package. dselect gives the following errors while
trying to upgrade the package:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0b/391kb of archives. After unpacking 0b will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 32970 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libtiff3g-dev 3.4beta037-6 (using /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff3g-dev_3.4beta037-6_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff3g-dev_3.4beta037-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff3g-dev_3.4beta037-6_i386.deb
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
Press enter to continue.
dpkg: error processing libtiff3g-dev (--configure):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting configuration.
Errors were encountered while processing:
libtiff3g-dev
installation script returned error exit status 100.
Press RETURN to continue.
My problem is that, I don't seem to be able to reinstall this package,
so I'm not sure how to proceed. I tried
$ dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq --remove libtiff3g-dev
But it still didn't work (which is what I thought
--force-remove-reinstreq would take care of). So I'm stuck; I don't
know how to get rid of it, upgrade it, anything. Any suggestions?
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Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education."
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