Re: Help removing failed package
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 03:36:01PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com> [2002.01.06.0425 +0100]:
> > Now I have one (trafstats) that is stuck in limbo. dselect shows it sa stae
> > "C", and it makes the install step fail. I tried doing a dpkg -r trafstats,
> > but that also fails.
> >
> > How can I remove this failed package?
>
> apt-get -f install
... only tries to correct broken dependencies, so isn't any use when
dpkg is failing.
After a discussion with Stan, it looks like removing the line referring
to the non-existent trafstats/nodaemon debconf template from
/var/lib/dpkg/info/trafstats.config may do the job, pending a proper
fix.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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