Gregory Guthrie <guthrie@mum.edu> writes:
> I took a new CDrom (2.1) and did re-deselect, which did a lot of upgrades
> to various stuff.
>
> The end result is that everything seems OK, except a remaining dependency
> problem, based on Samba, but it won't remove, and it depends on
> libpam-util, and thus I cannot remove libpam-util (which is not
> configured), and which is the reported error.
>
> running dpkg --pending --remove ...
> (Reading database ... 18478 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing samba ...
> dpkg: error processing samba (--remove):
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libpam0:
> samba depends on libpam0 (>= 0.56-1).
> dpkg: error processing libpam0 (--remove):
> dependency problems - not removing
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libpam-util:
> libpam0 depends on libpam-util (>= 0.56-2).
> dpkg: error processing libpam-util (--remove):
> dependency problems - not removing
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> samba
> libpam0
> libpam-util
Try `dpkg --force-depends --purge libpam0 libpam-util', then do
apt-get install samba
Bob
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