Wow! Thanks for the quick replies! Unfortunately, I had already tried these suggestions (except for one which didn't do it either). I have a sinking feeling that something is very wrong with my system. :(
>From: Marcin Kurc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > try dpkg --force-help I did read the man pages on this but I wasn't sure which one to use. --force-remove-reinstreq seems to be the right one, but for instance, dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq squid gives me the following result: Removing squid ... dpkg: error processing squid (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: squid >From: Bryan Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > dpkg -r <packagename> kills the package that isn't working.. also, > apt-get -f install works wonders for packages that just aren't happy.. > dependency problems or whatever. dpkg -r is what got me the errors in my original post (I think, but even so I have tried it several times already), and as you can see it's not killing the package for some reason. And apt-get -f install (which I hadn't tried yet) gave the following output (sorry for the spam): delta:/# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: apache-common The following NEW packages will be installed: apache-common 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/443kB of archives. After unpacking 849kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Selecting previously deselected package apache-common. (Reading database ... 11873 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking apache-common (from .../apache-common_1.3.3-7_i386.deb) ... Setting up apache-common (1.3.3-7) ... /usr/lib/apache/suexec not found dpkg: error processing apache-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache: apache depends on apache-common (>= 1.3.3); however: Package apache-common is not configured yet. apache depends on apache-common (<< 1.3.4); however: Package apache-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing apache (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up squid (2.1.2-1) ... dpkg: error processing squid (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: apache-common apache squid E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
