Re: remove or install a broken package

[Nick Hastings <hastings@physics.unimelb.edu.au>]

Hi,
* Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> [021120 10:25]:
> Haste make waste, as it always turns out.
> 
> I installed ipmasq and iptables.  I then tried to remove both packages but
> ipmasq choked:
> 
> # apt-get remove ipmasq
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   ipmasq 
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
> 2 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 455kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> (Reading database ... 10517 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing ipmasq ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ipmasq.prerm: /etc/init.d/ipmasq: No such file or directory
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think this is may be the important line.


Did you rm it?

Try

touch /etc/init.d/ipmasq

and then 

apt-get remove ipmasq

again.

HTH,

Nick.

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