Re: icecast-server install error

[Ryan White <rwhite@collectivenet.net>]

Thanks for the hint. I was unaware of the --purge option in dpkg. It seems
like thats all that needed to be done. There were files in /etc/rc* and I
even deleted them but that was not helping. --purge worked!

-Ryan

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, steve j. kondik wrote:

> if the init.d script is trying to stop it, just do this:
> 
> rm /etc/init.d/icecast
> touch /etc/init.d/icecast
> chmod +x /etc/init.d/icecast
> 
> this will just make a dummy file that will satisfy dpkg so you can --purge
> it and try reinstalling it.
> 
> -steve
> 
> On 01/10/00 @ 04:39PM, Ryan White wrote:
> > 
> > I seem to have an problem installing icecast-server. 
> > 
> > Unpacking icecast-server (from .../icecast-server_1.0.0-1_i386.deb) ...
> > start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbin/icecast: No such file or directory
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/icecast-server_1.0.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
> >  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  /var/cache/apt/archives/icecast-server_1.0.0-1_i386.deb