Re: Unable to properly install 2 packages
... I'm quite dumb.. forgot to include the so-called
guile-1.6.postinst.... sorry :)
here it is :
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minimum.
.
This package also contains a wrapper "pmount-hal" which reads some
information like device labels and mount options from hal and passes
them to pmount. Install the package "hal" if you want to use this
feature.
Package: menu-xdg
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 32
Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <ccheney@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.2
Recommends: menu
Conflicts: menu (<< 2.1.14)
Conffiles:
/etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-apps 14ad37
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there IS data corruption, as you can guess.
On Tue, 2005-31-05 at 21:45 -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-31-05 at 21:24 -0400, Marty wrote:
> > J.F.Gratton wrote:
> > [snip snip]
> > > Setting up guile-1.6 (1.6.7-1) ...
> > > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec
> > > format error
> > > dpkg: error processing guile-1.6 (--configure):
> > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> >
> > That script would be /var/lib/dpkg/info/guile-1.6.postinst
>
> OK, here's a start. 'cept that the file looks some kind of informational
> file used by apt/dpkg, *not* a script file or anything (at the bottom of
> this message you'll have the contents of the file.
>
> > If it exists and is uncorrupted, then you can try to debug it manually,
> > or else just try purging the package and starting over again.
>
> As the file does not contain any commands, I don't see anything to
> debug.
>
> My question remains, then:
>
> > >
> > > How do I get out of the "Exec format error" ?
> > >
> > > On a related topic : is there a way to make apt "forget" a package,
> > > and/or completely purge it from the disk, its installed packages list,
> > > etc ? Just so I'd be able to reinstall it or a newer version sometime
> > > later ?
> >
> > dpkg -P <pkg-name>
>
> OK, OK, my question was poorly phrased :). I've been using Deb for
> now... 4-5 years, so hopefully I know about dpkg :) What I meant to ask
> is how do I completely dump a package (manually remove all traces of it)
> when apt-get remove and dpkg -P fail ? My problem with guile is not only
> when I try to install it, but also when I try to remove/purge the
> package. You see, I had a power failure when dist-upgrading my system.
>
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Jeff
>
>
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