[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Block) wrote: >A friend of mine is having problems with a package (xwhois) that refuses >to be either upgraded or removed. That would be no big deal, but it is >also causing dselect & apt to crap out when trying to upgrade.
[...] >$ sudo dpkg --purge xwhois >Password: >dpkg: error processing xwhois (--purge): > Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should > reinstall it before attempting a removal. >Errors were encountered while processing: > xwhois >$ > >When I try to install it, (and yes I nuked >/var/cache/apt/archives/xwhois_0.2.3-1_i386.deb first) with apt-get >install xwhois, I get the following error message: > >$ sudo apt-get install xwhois >Reading Package Lists... Done >Building Dependency Tree... Done >Sorry, xwhois is already the newest version I've always had good luck using things like: apt-get --reinstall install xwhois -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
