Installing & Getting Rid of gdm in Woody

[Holger Rauch <Holger.Rauch@heitec.de>]

Hi!

I am faced with the following problem:

prag:~# apt-get install gdm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
  gdm
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1524kB of archives. After unpacking 799kB will be used.
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 129397 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gdm 2.2.5.4-2 (using .../gdm_2.2.5.5-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gdm ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gdm_2.2.5.5-2_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/gdm', which is also in package fluxbox
scrollkeeper-update: /usr/local/share/omf: No such file or directory
Registering /usr/share/omf/gnome-core/mailcheck_applet-no.omf
Registering /usr/share/omf/gnome-core/printer_applet-no.omf
Registering /usr/share/omf/gnome-core/fish_applet-it.omf
...

Why can't this package be unpacked? Does anybody know what's wrong with
the gdm package in Woody? How can I find it out myself?

I also tried to ged rid of gdm first before installing it by doing:

prag:~# apt-get remove gdm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gdm*
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 4014kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 129396 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gdm ...

My machine seems to hang at this point. When I press ^C once, I get:

dpkg: error processing gdm (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script killed by signal (Interrupt)
scrollkeeper-update: /usr/local/share/omf: No such file or directory
Registering /usr/share/omf/gnome-core/mailcheck_applet-no.omf
...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gdm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

How can I cleanly deinstall this package despite of these errors?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Kind regards,

	Holger


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