have I broken apt-get?!!!

[Dan Griswold <dgriswol@mail.smu.edu>]

Hi all,

I'm not sure what happened, but things are really screwed up with apt
after a recent apt-get upgrade sequence.

Many packages are held back, and now I can't get things to
install. Now, for example, if I do apt-get install xmms (which is one
of the packages needing to be upgraded, and which has already been
downloaded with apt-get upgrade), I get these messages:

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The following extra packages will be installed:
  gcc-doc gettext imagemagick leafnode xterm
6 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not
upgraded.
128 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/3584kB of archives. After unpacking 116kB will be
freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
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Then I get lots of error messages, having this commonality:

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Unpacking replacement leafnode ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/leafnode.postrm: /usr/sbin/update-inetd: No such
file or directory
dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: /usr/sbin/update-inetd: No such file or
directory
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/leafnode_1.9.18-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: /usr/sbin/update-inetd: No such file or
directory
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Any ideas on 1) what has happened, and 2) how I can fix it?

At one point in this whole process, I desperately tried apt-get
autoclean and even apt-get clean. That may have made things worse,
because now I've had to do 40mb downloads over dial-up, with no
success.

Help......

Thank you,

Dan
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Dan Griswold
dgriswol@mail.smu.edu
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