On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote:
> Please help -- I really messed up my 1.3 system today trying to upgrade to > 2.0 using the 2-cd set from LSL. I'd like to be able to find a way out of > this mess and be able to upgrade properly rather than having to save my > /usr/local and /etc and then reinstall new... > ... <snip> ... > Running dselect doesn't help, either. dpkg is broken -- every time I run it > I get something like: > > (Reading database ... 23523 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing wget ... > install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. > dpkg: error processing wget (--remove): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) > Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) > Errors were encountered while processing: > wget I'd first resolve the dependency problems by removing the packages with dpkg dpkg --remove wget If the prerm or postrm scripts fail, edit them to remove the problems. They're located in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Once the dependencies are resolved, add only a few packages at a time starting with the essential ones. -- Jean Pierre
