Re: Trouble installing (and/or removing) gsfonts-x11

[dommel@horizon.nl]

Hi,

You can try either to remove the package using 'dpkg -r gsfonts-
x11'. After that, reconfigure your packages using 'dpkg --configure -
a' and try to manually install gsfonts-x11 since apt will look for the 
latest version, and it seems like the package which comes with 
woody isn't compatible with the patato distribution.

Kind regards,

Bart van Dommelen.


On 15 Jan 2001, at 16:42, Andreas Boman wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I'm having problems getting gsfonts-x11 installed (using
> unstable/sid -quite by accident, thought I was getting woody :).
> 
> It seems that whatever I do the problem just will not go
> away. Below are some of the things I have tried, and the
> errors I get. The 15 packages that are not upgraded on my
> system seem to be held back by gsfonts-x11.
> 
> thanks for any help.
> Andreas
> 
> 
> 
> # dpkg -C
> The following packages are in a mess due to serious problems during
> installation.  They must be reinstalled for them (and any packages
> that depend on them) to function properly:
>  gsfonts-x11          Make Ghostscript fonts available to
> X11.
> 
> # apt-get install -f gsfonts-x11
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Sorry, gsfonts-x11 is already the newest version
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
> 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/6990B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Selecting previously deselected package gsfonts-x11.
> (Reading database ... 68379 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace gsfonts-x11 0.12 (using .../gsfonts-x11_0.12_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement gsfonts-x11 ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/gsfonts-x11.postrm: /usr/sbin/update-fonts-scale: 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-fonts-scale: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gsfonts-x11_0.12_all.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: /usr/sbin/update-fonts-scale: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/gsfonts-x11_0.12_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> # dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq gsfonts-x11
> dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
>  Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
>  reinstall it before attempting a removal.
> (Reading database ... 68379 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing gsfonts-x11 ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/gsfonts-x11.postrm: /usr/sbin/update-fonts-scale: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing gsfonts-x11 (--remove):
>  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  gsfonts-x11
> 
> 
> 
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