Sthu Deus:
> Jochen:
>>
>> Why do you use dpkg for that? Have you tried apt-get or aptitude? I
>> guess they will do what you want to achieve.
>>
>> J.
>
> I've tried that already. Please check this:
>
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> postgresql-8.3 [8.3.11-0lenny1] postgresql-client-8.3
> [8.3.12-0lenny1] 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove
> and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 20.8MB
> ...
> Removing postgresql-8.3 ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql-8.3.prerm: line
> 17: /usr/share/postgresql-common/maintscripts-functions: No such file
> or directory
Ok, so the installed package is broken. What message do you get when you
try to reinstall that package?
As a brute-force method, you could edit the file
/var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql-8.3.prerm and insert 'exit 0' in the
second line or so.
J.
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