Re: Dpkg broken.
Have you tried:
# apt-get --fix-broken remove
# apt-get --fix-broken install
?
Kieren Diment wrote:
>
> I was trying to install LyX, with dpkg -i lyx*.deb, but was told that libforms0.89 was not installed.
>
> So after that I kept making errors, downloading libforms-bin and
> installing that by mistake, downloading libforms and Lyx for the wrong
> Architecture (Mk68 and Sparc) by mistake. I finally got the correct
> deb files on my local machine and tried (as root)
>
> # dpkg -i libforms0.89_0.89-9.deb
>
> and got the following error message
>
> Selecting previously deselected package libforms0.89.
> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing libforms0.89_0.89-9.deb (--install):
> files list file for package `procmail' contains empty filename
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> libforms0.89_0.89-9.deb
> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
>
> The same error was generated when I tried a-t-get remove procmail
> (thought that re-installing procmail might cure the problem), and now
> my system is un-upgradeable.
>
> Can anyone help me fix dpkg. I just found that I was making too many
> trpoes with LaTeX commands and not identifying them until it was too
> late, , and I would like an easier life with LxY.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kd
>
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