This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: > When a post-removal script fails, none of dpkg, dselect, or apt-get will > help. Instead, you need to inspect /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-psm.postrm > (the script that's failing in this case), and either tweak the system so > that it succeeds or comment out the parts of the script that fail. > > Plus, of course, make sure that a bug is filed. > > Using, say, 'apt-get remove --purge' is common advice in this situation; > I'm not sure why, as it just calls down to dpkg and fails in exactly the > same way. In this case, I thought he was working strictly from dselect, and (occasionally) I have seen some of the higher level apps not handle ordering of removals or installs properly. I thought that moving one level of abstraction lower might help, but he had already tried. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Providence, New Jersey, is one of the | | steve@lobefin.net | few cities where Velveeta cheese | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | appears on the gourmet shelf. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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