On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:53:42AM -0500, James Smith wrote: > Hello all, > > Could somebody tell me a way to force the uninstall of gdm? It refuses to > uninstall, and my apt system is locked up because it can't get past > uninstalling gdm. I've tried dselect and dpkg --remove. Here is the output: > > Removing gdm ... > dpkg: error processing gdm (--remove): > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > gdm > > I tried gdm and decided I liked kdm much better. But I can't install it (or > anything else) until I uninstall gdm. Any suggestions?
well you can always remove the prerm script (rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/gdm.prerm) however not knowing what all it does in that script you may cause gdm to not properly cleanup after itself. my suggestion would be to grab that script and take a look to see what's hosed. Ivan -- ---------------- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
