font package nightmare
All,
I suppose I should've known better, but I attempted to fully upgrade to
woody last night. One of the problems I had had before the birth of
'testing' has recurred: there are four Chinese font packages
xfonts-arphic-bkai00mp 2.11.3
xfonts-arphic-gkai00mp 2.11.3
xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp 2.11.3
xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp 2.11.3
that get downloaded when I upgrade. *WITHOUT FAIL* they fail to configure,
producing dpkg errors such as the ones appended below. I only today filed
bug reports on them, which is only due to my own laziness.
The worst thing is I can't seem to GET RID OF THEM. No matter what I
attempt to do -- I delete them from /var/cache/apt/archives, I try to
compile other packages -- these g.d. font packages re-download, fail, and
hang around FOREVER.
I know that they are required for the task-chinese-t and task-chinese-s
meta-packages, but apart from that ... is there ANY WAY to
'backwards-check' dependency and get a list of packages on my box that
depend on these? That way I could just get rid of everything that needs
them.
I really would like to use my computer for Chinese language work, but this
has me at an impasse.
Thanks,
Glenn
NB transcript of dpkg errors follows.
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following extra packages will be installed:
xfonts-arphic-bkai00mp xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp
xfonts-arphic-gkai00mp
The following packages will be REMOVED:
enlightenment
4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
5 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/22.1kB of archives. After unpacking 1156kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
25% [Scanning packages]
50% [Scanning packages]
75% [Scanning packages]
100% [Scanning packages]
(Reading database ... 101513 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xfonts-arphic-bkai00mp 2.11.1 (using .../xfonts-arphic-bkai00mp_2.11.3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xfonts-arphic-bkai00mp ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xfonts-arphic-bkai00mp.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/xfonts-arphic-bkai00mp_2.11.3_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
Preparing to replace xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp 2.11.1 (using .../xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp_2.11.3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp.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/xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp_2.11.3_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
Preparing to replace xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp 2.11.1 (using .../xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp_2.11.3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp.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/xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp_2.11.3_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
Preparing to replace xfonts-arphic-gkai00mp 2.11.1 (using .../xfonts-arphic-gkai00mp_2.11.3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xfonts-arphic-gkai00mp ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xfonts-arphic-gkai00mp.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/xfonts-arphic-gkai00mp_2.11.3_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
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
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// G l e n n B e c k e r |
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// I don't wanna kill my china pig. |
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// glenn@scifi.com |
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