On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:18:40PM +0200, Hans wrote: > I'm running Potato 2.2r1 on a P200 desktop. For some reason (honestly, I > didn't do it consciously) irda-common-0.9.5-2 was installed, but never > wanted to get configured (and I don't even have ir hardware installed). It > also wouldn't let itself be removed, claiming that it needed to get > re-installed before being able to be removed. Re-install didn't help, so I > build a newer deb-version from testing sources. That didn't help either. > Installed the older version again, but now things have gone really bad: > dselect shows this package as RC**, it says it's in a very bad inconsistent > state and should be re-installed before being removed. > > To make things worse than that, other packages can't be installed now > either, because the configuration error of irda-common blocks their > configuration. How to get out of this? Thanks for the help. --Hans dpkg --force-reinstreq --purge irda-common See dpkg(8) and dpkg --force-help for details. Be warned that this has the potentiol to break your system. Realistically, it's probably ok for this package, especially since you've never actually installed it properly. -- Andrew Suffield <asuffield@users.sourceforge.net>
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