[wellylug] Re. apt-get install problem
Daniel Pittman
daniel at rimspace.net
Wed Oct 1 22:14:18 NZDT 2008
Adam Bogacki <afb at paradise.net.nz> writes:
>> 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.
Those are, pretty much uniformly, shell or (rarely) Perl scripts. On
the occasions they have caused by grief I tend to fix the one failing
line by hand, so that the rest of the actions[1] can take place.
At the very least taking a look inside is a good start. :)
Regards,
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] Remove system accounts, and other cleanups.
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