Re: manually purge .deb file

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

Am 2006-05-02 09:53:10, schrieb erchamion.beren@gmail.com:
> On Monday 01 May 2006 12:34, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > dpkg --purge firefox-1.5.en-us.linux
> hello, my previous command was aptitude install libgtk2.0-0 , sorry about 
> that. here is dpkg --purge result
> 
> # dpkg --purge firefox-1.5.en-us.linux
> dpkg: error processing firefox-1.5.en-us.linux (--purge):
>  Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
>  reinstall it before attempting a removal.
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  firefox-1.5.en-us.linux

This mean, dpkg is looking for some files e.g. /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list)
which it need to deinstall the package.

So you HAVE to install the package and then deinstall it...

Removing files by hand could give non-experienced users a nightmare.

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack


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