Re: Purging an older deskbar-applet

[Chris Searle <debian-user@chrissearle.org>]

Lets try sending that to the list instead of direct:

On 20. okt. 2006, at 20.14, Florian Kulzer wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:21:42 +0200, Chris wrote:

> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >   deskbar-applet{p}
> > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 462 not  
> > upgraded.
> > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 737kB will be freed.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
> > Writing extended state information... Done
> > (Reading database ... 203430 files and directories currently  
> > installed.)
> > Removing deskbar-applet ...
> > usage: update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package_directory [...]
> >        update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package.dirs [...]
> >        update-python-modules [-v] [-a|-f]
> >
> > update-python-modules: error: /usr/lib/deskbar-applet is not in the
> > python-support directory.
> > dpkg: error processing deskbar-applet (--purge):
> >  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  deskbar-applet
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
>
> The pre-removal script of this packages should be here:
>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/deskbar-applet.prerm
>
> Maybe you can simply comment out the call to update-python-modules, or
> there might be a syntax error in the script that you can fix.

There is no deskbar-applet* file in that dir :(


Chris
debian-user@chrissearle.org