Oh Debian L'ers, I've managed to get myself in a catch-22 kind of dilemma. In an effort to get a working 2.0.0 kernel with the proper options to support IP masquerading, somehow or other both my kernel-image and kernel-source packages have gotten to a state where I'm stuck fast! I cannot successfully build a kernel at this point, and I can't remove or reinstall either of the packages. Attempting to reinstall results in errors during the prerem or postrem scripts for both the source and image package. Attempting to remove, errors with a recommendation to reinstall (which fails of course!--hence the dilemma) before attempting to remove! I am stuck in that proverbial hard place.............
Is there some way to force dpkg to reinstall (or remove) in spite of the error it encounters attempting to remove the older package first? Or is there some reasonable way to fake it out by creating the .deb files in some magic place where the remove will work, for example, or even by copying them from the CD to an appropriate place (I do have the I-Connect CD cut on 6_16)? I haven't been successful attempting to use dpkg -i either, but that could be me not getting the syntax correct perhaps. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Stuck fast.... Paul
