Re: HELP - installing broken libglib1.2-dev
Hi Michael,
Thanks for responding.
To answer your questions:
a) Yup I'm root.
b) a dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq --purge
libglib1.2-dev, has the same fate :(
I don't know how to see which directories it's trying
to write to....if I could then I could manually do
it....do you know how I can do that??
Also even if I delete the files manually how do I then
tell dpkg that the package has been deleted....even
after a purge it keeps showing that the package is
installed though broken.
Any help would be appreciated....I can't understand
what's happening...would appreciate help.
Bye
--- Michael Heldebrant <Heldebrant.Michael@mayo.edu>
wrote:
> Two questions:
> 1. You are root running apt-get or dselect right?
> 2. Have you tried purging the dev packages instead
> of just removing
> them and then blasting any dir it says it can't
> delete manually?
>
> --mike
> On 10 Aug 2001 04:10:06 -0700, Jatin Golani wrote:
> > Hi ppl,
> >
> > I'm trying to install the GTK development
> libraries
> > libgtk1.2-dev and it needs libglib1.2-dev....a
> > previous attempt to do this had resulted in a
> broken
> > libglib1.2-dev....I've tried to remove it but I
> > can't....I've downloaded the .deb for the library
> and
> > if I try to reinstall I get the following message:
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > Preparing to replace libglib1.2-dev 1.2.7-2 (using
> > libglib1.2-dev_1.2.7-2.deb)...
> >
> > install-info: failed to lock dir! for editing. No
> such
> > file or directory
> >
> >
> > dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned
> error
> > exit status 2
> >
> > dpkg: trying script from new package instead..
> >
> > Document 'glib-docs' is not installed, cannot
> remove.
> >
> > install-info: failed to lock dir! for editing. No
> such
> > file or directory
> >
> > dpkg: error processing libglib1.2-dev_1.2.7-2.deb
> > (--install): subprocess new pre-removal script
> > returned error exit status 2
> >
> > install-info: failed to lock dir! for editing. No
> such
> > file or directory
> >
> > dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess
> > post-installation script returned error exit
> status 2
> >
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > libglib1.2-dev_1.2.7-2.deb
> >
> >
>
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> >
> > Could someone explain what the above means??? I'm
> very
> > new to this....have tried removing it but the same
> > fate :(....I'm desperate and have been trying
> > everything i could think of....pls help someone
> >
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