Hi all, I'm not sure what happened, but things are really screwed up with apt after a recent apt-get upgrade sequence.
Many packages are held back, and now I can't get things to install. Now, for example, if I do apt-get install xmms (which is one of the packages needing to be upgraded, and which has already been downloaded with apt-get upgrade), I get these messages: --------- The following extra packages will be installed: gcc-doc gettext imagemagick leafnode xterm 6 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. 128 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/3584kB of archives. After unpacking 116kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] --------- Then I get lots of error messages, having this commonality: --------- Unpacking replacement leafnode ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/leafnode.postrm: /usr/sbin/update-inetd: No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: /usr/sbin/update-inetd: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/leafnode_1.9.18-1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: /usr/sbin/update-inetd: No such file or directory -------- Any ideas on 1) what has happened, and 2) how I can fix it? At one point in this whole process, I desperately tried apt-get autoclean and even apt-get clean. That may have made things worse, because now I've had to do 40mb downloads over dial-up, with no success. Help...... Thank you, Dan -- ---------------------- Dan Griswold [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------
