Re: Re: Problems with lilypond-doc

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Sat 13 Sep 2014 at 15:50:33 +0000, Golden Chariot Charterers wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Tried suggestions on apt-get purge lilypond-doc. The following
> happened thereafter :
> 
> root@debian:/home/glenn# apt-get purge lilypond-doc
> + apt-get purge lilypond-doc
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   lilypond-doc*
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 59 not upgraded.
> 20 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
> dpkg: error processing package lilypond-doc (--purge):
>  package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
>  reinstall it before attempting a removal
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  lilypond-doc
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> 
> Do not know how to get rid of lilypond :-(

Obtain version 2.14.2-4 from Wheezy at

  https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

Alternatively, see if you have it in /var/cache/apt/archives.

Then

  dpkg -i lilypond-doc_2.14.2-4_all.deb

Now uninstall it.