Re: [Q] How to remove a broken package

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

wen@japan.email.ne.jp wrote:
>I am in deep trouble with managing packages. I could not remove
>a package which is in the status of half-installed. When I try to 
>remove it by dpkg -r or dselect I get a error message as follows,
>---
>dpkg: error processing tfm-arphic-bkai00mp (--remove):
> Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall
>it before attempting a removal.
>---
>But when I try to reinstall it I get "Sorry, tfm-arphic-bkai00mp is
>already the newest version." and the installation could not be completed.
>What should I do?  Thanks so much for any help!

Either download it and 'dpkg -i tfm...deb', or else 'apt-get --reinstall
install tfm-arphic-bkai00mp'.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]