-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Gernot wrote: >I am having problems upgrading to Debian 1.3 with the latex-packages. I >know that I have to purge the old packages and it works fine despite for >the babel-package. I get the following error-message when i "dpkg >--purge --force-depends babel": > >mother# dpkg --purge --force-depends babel >(Reading database ... 27160 files and directories currently installed.) >Removing babel ... >Purging configuration files for babel ... >Building new format(s) without babel support using install-fmt-base(8) >/var/lib/dpkg/info/babel.postrm: install-fmt-base: command not found >dpkg: error processing babel (--purge): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 >Errors were encountered while processing: > babel Create an install-fmt-base shell script that does nothing:
#!/bin/sh exit 0 Then try to remove babel again. Nils - -- \ / | Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \ | 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM5fbG1ptA0IhBm0NAQFDhgL+LsbZbiSY7pO8mrl32D50/6AwWgaxM584 XTpOntFZEb+SAxotpt0bRb5gtD7Bpaj2kfOFAhiBH7Q3ANjlYLpsnV5uOV2hHugV jT6xnSQmQKRkdcKLpzmCIaB60E2rZnOT =lxEk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .