Re: Purging an older deskbar-applet
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:21:42AM +0200, Chris wrote:
> Running sid.
>
> I'm trying to purge deskbar-applet:
>
> 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.)
^^^^^^
wow!
> 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:
>
> So - I'm not convinced that the 0.8 one is from the main repos (seems
> quite a version change). Can't recall where I grabbed if from if not though.
Maybe the python packages need to be updated? (i.e from - 462 not
upgraded.)
> Upgrading to 2.14 would cause a lot of packages to update that I just
> don't want to take right now.
I would upgrade python, python-apt, etc first.
Maybe apt-get -f install (or whatever the aptitude equivalent is.) might
help?
--
Chris.
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rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government
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