I have a package that has the following code in dselect: RI-- Package name et 80b2-8
I cannot install or remove this package. It is stoping me from using apt-get to update some files for me. I have tried everything that I can think of to install or remove this package. I have used dpkg, dselect, apt-get with all the opthions that I could find. How do I corect this so I can use apt-get? Here is the error message I get from using apt-get: schramms:/home/schrambm# apt-get -yfm install Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following packages will be REMOVED: et 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 38 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0b of archives. After unpacking 314k will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y dpkg: error processing et (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: et E: Sub-process returned an error code schramms:/home/schrambm# Thanks for your help. -- Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
