Re: help: Removing a package with dselect -- pre-removal fails
Read the following at debianhelp.org:
http://www.debianhelp.org/article.php?sid=248
--- Lukas Ruf <ruf@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
> wrote:
>What do I need to do to remove a package that was broken during the
>installation process ? Below, please find the trials I already run
>N-times.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Lukas
>
>dselect - Install reports:
>=======
>Removing spong-client ...
>Stopping spong client programs: spong-clientdpkg: error processing
>spong-client (--remove):
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> spong-client
>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg 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 -r spong-client
>=======
>(Reading database ... 81180 files and directories currently installed.)
>Removing spong-client ...
>Stopping spong client programs: spong-clientdpkg: error processing
>spong-client (--remove):
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> spong-client
>
>dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq spong-client
>=======
>(Reading database ... 81180 files and directories currently installed.)
>Removing spong-client ...
>Stopping spong client programs: spong-clientdpkg: error processing
>spong-client (--remove):
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> spong-client
>
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