> > I'm down to looking at a rebuild, which I am really, really loathe to > do, since that's the solution in the Microsoft world and isn't supposed > to be the solution for Linux, but unless one of you gurus can help me > fix this, it's the only solution I have left. > cd /var/lib/dpkg/info. Edit the 7 scripts in question and put a 'exit 0' at the top of each one. dpkg --purge each of them. Then reinstall them. Should settle the issue.