Re: package in a bad way - what to do
Have you tried apt-get --purge remove <program name>
--- burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As has happened sometimes in the past, I've got a
> package that seems to be
> in "trouble," and I can't figure out what to do with
> it ... since it never
> -really- seems to get all the way installed. I'd
> like to just do away with
> it entirely.
>
> The package in question is the MUD server aime. Here
> is what I'm currently
> getting back from apt-get dist-upgrade:
>
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> The following packages have been kept back
> cygnus-stylesheets filters scilab
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove
> and 3 not upgraded.
> 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 614kB of archives. After unpacking 4096B
> will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1
> http://http.us.debian.org testing/main aime 0.59-3
> [614kB]
> Fetched 614kB in 10s (59.3kB/s)
> (Reading database ... 142823 files and directories
> currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace aime 0.59-2 (using
> .../archives/aime_0.59-3_i386.deb) ...
> Stopping MUD Server: dpkg: warning - old pre-removal
> script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead
> ...
> Stopping MUD Server: dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/aime_0.59-3_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
> subprocess new pre-removal script returned error
> exit status 1
> Starting MUD Server: /etc/init.d/aime: line 68:
> 11304 File size limit exceededstart-stop-daemon
> --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec
> $DAEMON -- -q
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess post-installation script returned error
> exit status 153
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/aime_0.59-3_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code
> (1)
>
>
> Trying to apt-get remove does not help; I downloaded
> the pkg to another
> place and tried to dpkg -i from there and that
> didn't work either.
>
> Is there a fairly straightforward way to just get
> this damned thing off my
> system? It's probably a simple matter of
> configuration, but I've got too
> much else to futz with now to be futzing with this
> ...
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Glenn
>
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