This one time, at band camp, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls said: > Hello: > > I was unable to get mozilla to run. It did not complain when I attempted to > launch from an xterm, nor did it run. I finally decided to remove mozilla > and its parts and reinstall it. That is where I ran into problems. During > the reinstall, x crashed while downloading mozilla and mozilla-psm. I > restarted x and then dselect in another xterm. dselect complained that the > mozilla-psm file was corrupt. I tried to purge it so I could start over but > it simply will not. I will paste some details below. > > Question, is there a way to force a package that is now selected for removal > out of the system? I have gone so far as looking into dpkg (force items) and > it still fails. Right now, it looks like it is trying to *create* symlinks > (like it was being installed) even though apt is trying to remove it. Any > help would be much appreciated. Try apt-get remove --purge mozilla That should force the removal of mozilla-psm and anything else that depends on it. As for your first problem, mozilla not running, let's see what we can do. Debian uses the alternatives system for mozilla (so you could have multiple versions installed, if you want), so: steve:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/mozilla* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2002-09-16 22:05 /usr/bin/mozilla -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5870 2002-09-13 08:22 /usr/bin/mozilla-1.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2002-09-16 22:05 /usr/bin/mozilla-xremote-client -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-xremote-client -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8836 2002-09-13 08:23 /usr/bin/mozilla-xremote-client-1.1 (sorry for the ugly wrap) Once you get mozilla successfully purged and reinstalled, check that the symlinks point to an actual binary that can be run. If not (as root) use update-alternatives to fix it. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | The first Rotarian was the first man to | | steve@lobefin.net | call John the Baptist "Jack." -- H.L. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Mencken | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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