apt & dselect failure to remove mozilla
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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.
pts/1$ > apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mozilla-psm
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 537kB will be freed.
(Reading database ... 78654 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mozilla-psm ...
Updating mozilla chrome registry...ln: creating symbolic link
`/usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/overlayinfo'
to `/var/lib/mozilla/chrome/overlayinfo': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing mozilla-psm (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mozilla-psm
localepurge: processing locale files ...
localepurge: processing man pages ...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
~ pts/1$ >
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