On 07 Apr 2000, Oki DZ wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > What can you do when you can neither install nor uninstall a package, > > which is left broken? > > Did the installation stop when dpkg ran the config. scripts? (ie: all the > files had been unpacked, but not yet configured). If yes, cd to > /var/lib/dpkg/info, and look for tetex-base.pre* and tetex-base.post*. > Then add "exit 0" after the first line (ie: after #!/bin/sh), then "dpkg > -r tetex-base" command. > > > I've done this with tetex-base. Even using the force option to remove it > > sith with dpkg doesn't work. > > Try: > dpkg --unpack tetex-base*.deb (in /var/cache/apt/archives) > dpkg -r tetex-base > > > I think I may have to make an entirely new installation of Debian :-( > > IMHO, this is the wrong way of doing things. >
Problem is now solved. It was due to an obscure and unusual bug in dpkg which had put a bogus copy of install-info in /usr/bin. V. difficult to spot that this had happened. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.freethinker/uklinux.net/ "To be forced by desire into any unwarrantable belief is a calamity." I.A. Richards
