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Re: how to fix my broken system..



Creating an empty file doesnt fix it:- result:
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# touch /usr/share/postgresql-common/maintscripts-functions
localhost:/home/user# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  postgresql-client-8.3 postgresql-client-common
Suggested packages:
  postgresql-8.3 postgresql-doc-8.3
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  postgresql-8.3
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  postgresql-client-8.3 postgresql-client-common
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1657kB of archives.
After unpacking 9118kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  postgresql-client-8.3
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
(Reading database ... 196875 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing postgresql-8.3 ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql-8.3.prerm: line 18: remove_version: command not found
dpkg: error processing postgresql-8.3 (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 postgresql-8.3
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
localhost:/home/user#
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I checked in http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/  and I found   maintscripts-functions is there in postgresql-client-common_87~bpo40+1_all.deb. But GDebi package installer refused to install it, as the package index is broken. So I downloaded this package, and extracted the file maintscripts-functions from it and created a directory /usr/share/postgresql-common/ and copied it to it. then issued commands

#dpkg --remove postgresql-8.3
#dpkg --purge postgresql-8.3

and then removed the file from /usr/share/postgresql-common/maintscripts-functions and the folder /usr/share/postgresql-common/ .

Then issued:-

#apt-get upgrade

Problem resolved... :)

Thanks to all, and a special thanks to this human:- NN_il_Confusionario <pinkof.pallus@tiscalinet.it> as he (or she?) made me how to handle an issue of this type..
cheers...!! 


On 11/04/2008, NN_il_Confusionario <pinkof.pallus@tiscalinet.it> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:25:14PM +0530, Jaisen N.D. wrote:
> There is no such file /usr/share/postgresql-common/maintscripts-functions
> in  the package postgresql-common_87~bpo40+1_all.deb . I have checked that.


ckeck with apt-file or the file Contents for your architecture at
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/
which package contains that file


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