Re: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid: aptitude ERROR

[Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Csanyi Pal <csanyipal@gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mi, 02 mai 12, 08:52:26, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>
>>> today I run aptitude update and get errors:
>>> http://paste.debian.net/166950/
>>
>> Pastebin for 3 lines?
>>
>>> After that I run aptitude safe-upgrade and again, I get errors:
>>> http://paste.debian.net/166951/
>>
>> I'd say this is your problem:
>>
>> Setting up fontconfig-config (2.9.0-2) ...
>> rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/': Directory not empty
>> dpkg: error processing fontconfig-config (--configure):
>>
>>> What can I do to solve these problems?
>>
>> Delete or move (not copy) that directory somewhere else and then retry.
>
> Thanks! That solve the problem.


BTW, as the defoma is getting removed, instead of manually moving its
directories and files, you could have:

aptitude purge defoma

And that would have paved the way as well, actually I did that
yesterday (sid) with no porblems, :-)

-- 
Javier.