[wellylug] Re. apt-get install problem

Adam Bogacki afb at paradise.net.nz
Wed Oct 1 22:00:16 NZDT 2008


> That big nasty screenful of apt-fail points to the post-removal
> scripts
> for gnome-screensaver and libgnomevfs2-common crashing.  Try dpkg -a
> --configure; if it still fails, I've been know to trash the files
> under /var/lib/dpkg/info/culprit.post-rm (or whatever) to force dpkg
> into continuing in this sort of situation.  Or even
> editing /var/lib/dpkg/status - the format is straightforward enough

Thanks Sam. 'Trashing' (deleting) worked for me to.

Thanks,

Adam.
afb at paradise.net.nz



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