Re: Purging deb

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:23:40PM +0200, Jose Manuel Perez wrote:
> I've installed a package in my Potato but it crashed during
> installation and I'd like to uninstall it. I've tried
> dpkg --purge <package>, with and without --force-??? option, but
> I've not found the way to remove it. Allways I've got:
> 
> siul04:~# dpkg --purge lgtoclnt
> (Leyendo la base de datos ... [reading database ...]
> 44862 ficheros y directorios instalados actualmente.) [4862 files and 
> directories installed]
> Desinstalando lgtoclnt ... [Deinstalling lgtoclnt ...]
> rmdir: número de argumentos insuficiente [rmdir: insuficient number of 
> arguments ]
> Pruebe `rmdir --help' para más información. [Try ?? for more information]

The package is broken.

> I have to say that this package was originally a rpm, and
> I've converted it to deb.

Ah, that would explain it then ...

Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/lgtoclnt.prerm and/or
/var/lib/dpkg/info/lgtoclnt.postrm, look for the rmdir call that's
failing, fix it, then try 'dpkg --purge lgtoclnt' again.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]